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Question for Department for Business and Trade

UIN 22315, tabled on 17 April 2024

Question

Seema Malhotra
Labour
Feltham and Heston
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department (a) collects and (b) produces labour market information.

Answer

Kevin Hollinrake
Conservative
Thirsk and Malton
Commons

Answered on

23 April 2024

This answer is a correction from the original answer.

The Department for Business and Trade is responsible for employment rights.

In order to support this, the department collects and produces labour market information through published impact assessments, and statistics on trade union membership in the UK. This is undertaken to better inform policy decisions. They can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-and-trade/about/statistics.

Original answer

The Department for Business and Trade is responsible for employment rights.

In order to support this, the department collects and produces labour market information through published impact assessments, and statistics on trade union membership in the UK. This is undertaken to better inform policy decisions.

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