Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 62037
Business: Summertime
Tabled: 23 June 2025
Answered: 1 July 2025
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits for businesses of adopting Single/Double Summer Time.
Answer
Justin MaddersThe Government believes the current daylight-saving arrangements represent the optimal use of the available daylight across the UK. Therefore, we have no plans to introduce double summertime, permanent summertime, or other such changes which would require...
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