Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 105476

Trade Unions: Small Businesses

Tabled: 13 January 2026
Answered: 21 January 2026

Question

Jack Rankin

ConservativeWindsor

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's consultation entitled Make Work Pay: Right of Trade Unions to Access Workplaces, published on 23 October 2025, what discussions he has had with business organisations

Answer

Kate Dearden
As part of the consultation process, we engaged with business organisations and unions on proposals put forward in the public consultation, including the proposed exemption from statutory access provisions for employers of a certain size. We are carefull...

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