Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 78045
England: Anniversaries
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025
Question
Andrew Rosindell
Reform UK — Romford
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it her policy to make 12 July 2027 a public holiday to mark the 1100th anniversary of the unification of England under King Athelstan.
Answer
Kate DeardenThe current pattern of bank and public holidays is well established and the Government has no plans to create a one-off bank holiday to mark the 1100th anniversary of the unification of England under King Athelstan.While an additional bank holiday may ben...
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