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Department for Transport: Unfair Dismissal

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
23 Jan 2025
Answer
29 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Department for Transport employs robust policies to ensure that the dismissal of any employee, including new employees serving a period of probation, is fair and legally compliant.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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