Question follow-through · 80529
Business: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help ensure (a) legal and (b) ethical business practices are followed when firms undertake redundancies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help ensure (a) legal and (b) ethical business practices are followed when firms undertake redundancies.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2025
Answer published
The government’s Plan to Make Work Pay committed to strengthening collective redundancy protections. The Employment Rights Bill will double the maximum period of the protective award that can be made for an employer’s failure to comply with their collecti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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