Question follow-through · 29283
Flexible Working: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps the Government is taking to support women in the workplace with flexible working.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 21 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps the Government is taking to support women in the workplace with flexible working.
15 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Sept 2026
Answer published
Through the Employment Rights Act 2025, the government is strengthening the flexible working framework. We are introducing a new requirement that employers must only reject requests where it is reasonable to do so and we will set out a statutory process e...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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