Question follow-through · 40541
Department for Business and Trade: Trade Union Officials
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many (a) total and (b) full-time equivalent trade union representatives in his Department receive trade union facility time; how many trade union representatives spend over 50% of their working hou
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
- Business: Regulation · 2 Apr 2025
- Department for Business and Trade: Public Appointments · 2 Apr 2025
- Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 · 3 Apr 2025
- Living Wage and Minimum Wage: Publicity · 17 Jul 2025
- Public Appointments · 29 Aug 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many (a) total and (b) full-time equivalent trade union representatives in his Department receive trade union facility time; how many trade union representatives spend over 50% of their working hou
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Department for Business and Trade’s (DBT) provides annual data to Cabinet Office on facilities time for its employees who are Trade Union representatives. The report for 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 has not yet been published. Within the last reporti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Business: Regulation
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2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to uphold the Nolan principles on standards in public life in public appointments.
Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017
3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 40580 on Trade Union Officials: Facilities Agreements, whether he plans to revoke the The Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regula
Living Wage and Minimum Wage: Publicity
17 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will list the names of the six digital influencers who were funded by his Department to promote the Living Wage and Minimum Wage.
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15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 74315 on DBT: Social Media, how much has been spent since 4 July 2025; on what campaigns; and through what influencers.
Unite: Conference Centres and Hotels
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 73349, on Unite: Conference Centres and Hotels, if he will publish a copy of the report that the Certification Officer received in the Library.
Companies: Registration
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Strikes
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