Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 48551
Trade Union Recognition
Tabled: 28 April 2025
Answered: 7 May 2025
Question
Mr Richard Holden
Conservative — Basildon and Billericay
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his planned timetable is for publishing a consultation on lowering the proportional threshold for trade union recognition.
Answer
Justin MaddersThe Employment Rights Bill has a power that enables Ministers to bring forward secondary legislation to vary the trade union recognition application threshold from 10% to 2% trade union membership of the bargaining unit.No decision has yet been made by th...
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