Question follow-through · 36158
Delivery Services: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to protect delivery drivers from exploitative working practices.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to protect delivery drivers from exploitative working practices.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
Our Plan to Make Work Pay represents the biggest upgrade of workers' rights in a generation.The Government does not condone the exploitation of workers in any form and we are committed to strengthening protections for workers. Individuals' entitlement to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Members: Correspondence
26 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he intends to respond to the emails of 7 October 2025 and 5 January 2026 from the hon. Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough, case reference TG10331, on a constituent's issue with their Bounce Ba
Supermarkets: Prices
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to introduce regulations to ensure that non-loyalty scheme prices for essential groceries are transparent.
Supermarkets: Prices
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with major supermarkets on the increasing price differential between loyalty and non-loyalty prices.
Supermarkets: Prices
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent discussions he has had with the Competition and Markets Authority on supermarket pricing practices.
Bounce Back Loan Scheme
18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken by his Department to prevent company directors from voluntarily striking off non-trading companies due to unresolved Bounce Back Loan cases; and what co