Question follow-through · 75499
Employment Tribunals Service: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recourse is available in situations where an employment tribunal award has been made but cannot be enforced because the company is no longer trading and has not gone into formal insolvency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recourse is available in situations where an employment tribunal award has been made but cannot be enforced because the company is no longer trading and has not gone into formal insolvency.
10 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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11 Sept 2025
Answer published
In the absence of any formal insolvency proceedings, the Redundancy Payment Service, which is part of the Insolvency Service, can pay redundancy pay awarded by the Employment Tribunal to a former employee.It is unable to consider payment of any other elem...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Employment Tribunals Service: Enforcement
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing further recourse in situations where an employment tribunal award (a) relating to (i) wages, (ii) holiday pay, (iii) compensatory noti