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...