Question follow-through · 25717
Hospitality Industry: Working Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed shift scheduling and short-notice payment requirements on hospitality businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed shift scheduling and short-notice payment requirements on hospitality businesses.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
The government has published comprehensive assessments of the potential impacts of the right to reasonable notice of shifts and the right to payment for shifts cancelled, moved or curtailed at short notice, which include consideration of impacts on differ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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