Question follow-through · 119567
Small Businesses: Working Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of guaranteed hours requirements on small and medium-sized enterprises operating in sectors reliant on temporary labour.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 16 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
- Industry: Working Hours · 10 Apr 2026
- Visas: Skilled Workers · 24 Jun 2026
- Visas: Skilled Workers · 24 Jun 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of guaranteed hours requirements on small and medium-sized enterprises operating in sectors reliant on temporary labour.
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Mar 2026
Answer published
The government has published a comprehensive assessment of the potential impacts of the zero hours contract measures in the Employment Rights Act 2025.This analysis includes consideration of increases in labour costs and effects on flexibility for micro, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Industry: Working Hours
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2026 to Question 119566 on Industry: Working Hours, when he plans to publish the public consultation on guaranteed hours.
Visas: Skilled Workers
24 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of the subsidisation of visa fees for certain high skilled visa applications.
Visas: Skilled Workers
24 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what alternative options he considered to the subsidisation of fees for certain high skilled visa applications.