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Public Holidays

Commons · Question 35246 · Tabled 4 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 13 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Grahame Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 31822 on Public Holidays, if he will make an estimate of the (a) cost of introducing an additional annual bank holiday on a permanent basis and (b) fi

Answer

Answered by Justin Madders, 13 Mar 2025

Under the Better Regulation Framework, the Department would be expected to produce an Impact Assessment estimating the costs of an additional, permanent bank holiday if the Government proposed one. However, since the current pattern of bank and public hol...