Question follow-through · 2580
Summertime
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment as part of his next spending review of the potential economic merits of double British Summer time.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 30 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2024 · 34 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment as part of his next spending review of the potential economic merits of double British Summer time.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government has no current plans to change the approach to Daylight Savings.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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23 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to introduce (a) the right to paid employment leave and (b) legal safeguarding for kinship carers.
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4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will review support for parents who will not be entitled to Neonatal Care Leave and Pay because they (a) are self-employed and (b) have another ineligible employment status.
Post Offices: Bank Services
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Hospitality Industry
14 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support the hospitality industry.
Employment Rights Bill
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11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his planned timetable is for when each consultation attached to the Employment Rights Bill will have reported to the Government.
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1 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support independent hospitality businesses.
Manufacturing Industries: Small Businesses
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Manufacturing Industries: Small Businesses
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