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Small Businesses: Trade Unions

Asked by David ReedConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 28 May 2026UIN 3117

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings did his department hold with trade unions regarding the setting of the threshold for trade union access to SMEs.

Answered by Kate Dearden

The Department for Business and Trade held several roundtable discussions with business and industry groups throughout the development of the trade union right of access policy. In these meetings the threshold for trade union access to SMEs was discussed. This has included discussions before and during the relevant consultations on the secondary legislation and the new Code of Practice on access.

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