Question follow-through · 93560
Recruitment: Temporary Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of enforcement capacity during periods of high-volume seasonal recruitment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of enforcement capacity during periods of high-volume seasonal recruitment.
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
All employers must comply with their legal obligations to ensure that their staff receive the rights and protections to which they are entitled, including when recruiting temporary or seasonal staff during periods of high demand such as Christmas.The Empl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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