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date	17/05/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Amazon: Delivery Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made any recent representations to Amazon UK on (a) the adequacy of working conditions for its delivery drivers, (b) requests from their delivery drivers for a meeting with Amazon’s leadership team and (c) the potential merits of reviewing the delivery targets for Amazon UK delivery drivers.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	2396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2021 answer text <p>The Government actively encourages businesses to ensure their supply chains are robust, especially by ensuring partners treat workers fairly and in accordance with the law. The specific issues raised by the Hon. Member for Ceredigion about Amazon and their contractors are internal matters of a private company on which I cannot comment.</p><p> </p><p>I am thankful to our valuable retail workers who continued to work over the last year in warehouses, supply chains and as delivery drivers throughout this challenging period, ensuring consumers have safe access to goods. I look forward to continuing to work with Amazon, in particular through the Retail Sector Council.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 20/05/2021 16:20:38 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1309545

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date	15/04/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Amazon: Delivery Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made representations to Amazon UK on (a) the death of a 21-year-old Amazon driver on 17 February 2021 and (b) the potential merits of reassessing delivery targets for Amazon UK delivery drivers.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	181449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2021 answer text <p>I was deeply saddened to hear the tragic news of the death of the Amazon driver, and I send my sincere condolences to their family. South Yorkshire Police are investigating and are appealing to anyone who witnessed the collision to contact them.</p><p> </p><p>Benchmark standards for safe delivery plans and realistic schedules are set out in the joint HSE and Department for Transport guidance (<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hse.gov.uk%2Fpubns%2Findg382.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary.PQ%40beis.gov.uk%7C0392f2cdcb75491936f308d900d03e54%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C1%7C637541716665339908%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=aZcmkn%2F8AgwFlv7lvNOnko2P0DpVWDG6T9BU%2B0U%2FH8o%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Driving at work: Managing work-related road safety INDG382(rev1) (hse.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 21/04/2021 09:48:53 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully previous answer version 98072 answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana