Question follow-through · 4289
Conditions of Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of strengthening the right to Disability Leave for disabled workers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of strengthening the right to Disability Leave for disabled workers.
10 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Department for Business has not made an assessment of the merits of creating a new employment right for Disability Leave.The Government has set out its immediate priorities for reforming employment law in the Plan to Make Work Pay. The Plan includes a...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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