Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 100123

Unfair Dismissal: Compensation

Tabled: 15 December 2025

Answered: 18 December 2025

Named Day

Question

Andrew Griffith

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the cost to the a) private sector and b) public sector of abolishing the caps on unfair dismissal compensation claims.

Answer

Kate Dearden

The Government will be publishing an Enactment Impact Assessment on the impacts of the Employment Rights Act. This will include an assessment of the removal of the compensation cap for unfair dismissal on different sectors. This assessment can be found he...

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