Question follow-through · 41534
Employment Tribunals Service: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the level of financial penalty for employers who do not pay their ex-employee promptly after losing a tribunal.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 3 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 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 increasing the level of financial penalty for employers who do not pay their ex-employee promptly after losing a tribunal.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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3 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to considering further improvements to the way that people can enforce their employment rights, including the role that Acas, Employment Tribunals and the Fair Work Agency play in ensuring workers’ have access to an effective j...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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