Question follow-through · 54006
Fair Work Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2025 to Question 47348 on Conditions of Employment, what comparative estimate he has made of the workload of the (a) Fair Work Agency and (b) existing bodies being merge
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2025 to Question 47348 on Conditions of Employment, what comparative estimate he has made of the workload of the (a) Fair Work Agency and (b) existing bodies being merge
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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5 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Fair Work Agency will take over responsibility for the labour market enforcement currently undertaken by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate, the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority and HMRC’s National Minimum Wage team. It will also, in t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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