Question follow-through · 44224
Employment Rights Bill: Local Government Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on the ability of councils to provide (a) regular refuse collections and (b) other core services.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 4 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 10 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
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- Trade Unions: Intimidation · 17 Apr 2025
- Alcoholic Drinks: Measurement · 17 Apr 2025
- Employment Rights Bill: Local Government Services · 17 Apr 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
4 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on the ability of councils to provide (a) regular refuse collections and (b) other core services.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Apr 2025
Answer published
The delivery of the Plan to Make Work Pay is a manifesto commitment. We will be engaging closely with local authorities as the policy develops and further detail on funding models will be provided in due course. We will consult extensively on the implemen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Parish and Town Councils: Trade Unions
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the trade union recognition provisions in the Employment Rights Bill will apply to town and parish councils.
Small Businesses: Trade Unions
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the trade union recognition provisions in the Employment Rights Bill on SMEs.
Trade Unions: Intimidation
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help tackle intimidatory practices by trade unions when on strike.
Alcoholic Drinks: Measurement
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to make changes to the permitted size of a serving of beer or cider.
Employment Rights Bill: Local Government Services
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2025 to Question 44224 on Employment Rights Bill: Local Government Services, if he will consult each (a) local authority and (b)town and parish council.
Waste Disposal: Industrial Disputes
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the repeal of the Trade Union Act 2015 on (a) the likelihood of future industrial action in local authorities relating to the collection of hous
Electoral Commission: Companies House
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 41450 on Electoral Commission: Companies House, whether data has been shared between Companies House and the Electoral Commission; and how data sharin
Unite: Annual Reports
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Certification Officer's corporate reports entitled Unite the Union: annual returns (PDF format), for what reason Unite have provided partial annual returns between 2021 and 2023.
Industrial Disputes: Trade Unions
22 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether (a) public and (b) private sector employees can suspend (i) check off and (ii) facility time for trade unions during industrial action.
Picketing
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has received recent representations from trade unions on the six person limit on pickets; and whether he has considered amending this limit.
Picketing
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to amend the code of practice on picketing, updated on 11 March 2024.
Industrial Disputes
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on (a) the trade union action in Birmingham and (b) industrial action in general.