Question follow-through · 9358
Flexible Working: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support women with flexible working.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support women with flexible working.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
Through the recently introduced Employment Rights Bill, we are amending existing legislation to ensure employers accept flexible working requests, except where they are not reasonably feasible. These changes will support employees to access flexible worki...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Trade Agreements: Israel
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Flexible Working
13 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that employers are providing support for women in the workplace with flexible working.
Jagtar Singh Johal
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Funerals
26 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the fulfilment of consumer requirements in the (a) funeral, (b) cremation and (c) burial services sectors.