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Small Businesses: Trade Unions

Commons · Question 56334 · Tabled 2 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 9 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of trade union access proposals on SMEs that employ less than 200 people.

Answer

Answered by Justin Madders, 9 Jun 2025

The Government is committed to modernising industrial relations and as part of this we are moving away from a reliance on outdated, ad-hoc access arrangements by providing a formal right of access for trade unions in the Employment Rights Bill.We will be ...