Question follow-through · 51624
Working Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the individual opt-out agreement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 on employee protections.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the individual opt-out agreement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 on employee protections.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
A review of the impact of the Working Time Regulations on the UK labour market was undertaken by the Coalition Government in 2014. It found a decline since 1998 in the incidence of long-hours working despite the existence of the opt-out, and a general tre...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Postal Services: Scotland
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Small Businesses: Coronavirus
23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of financial support available to people who lost their businesses during the covid-19 pandemic.
Small Businesses: Coronavirus
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Digital Technology: Consumers
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