Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 89733

Small Businesses: Recruitment

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 19 November 2025

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on levels of hiring confidence among small and medium-sized enterprises.

Answer

Kate Dearden
My department has published a robust set of Impact Assessments that provide a comprehensive analysis on the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill, available here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/employment-rights-bill-impact-assessmentsThis analysis ...

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