Question follow-through · 3119
Small Businesses: Trade Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions were had with business and industry groups regarding the threshold for trade union access to SMEs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 28 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions were had with business and industry groups regarding the threshold for trade union access to SMEs.
21 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2026
Answer published
The Department for Business and Trade held several roundtable discussions with business and industry groups throughout the development of the trade union right of access policy. In these meetings the threshold for trade union access to SMEs was discussed....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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