Policy Threads

9 Sep 2024 | Announcement Department for Business and Trade linked

Repeal of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023

UIN: HLWS75 My Honourable Friend the Minister for Employment Rights, Competition and Markets (Justin Madders MP) has today made the following statement.Minimum service levels (MSLs) unduly restrict the right to strike and undermine good industrial relations. The intr...

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9 Sep 2024 | Announcement Department for Business and Trade linked

Repeal of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023

UIN: HCWS75 Minimum service levels (MSLs) unduly restrict the right to strike and undermine good industrial relations. The introduction of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (“the 2023 Act”) was met with widespread condemnation from employers and trade uni...

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14 Nov 2023 | Announcement Department for Business and Trade linked

Industrial Action Update

UIN: HLWS30 My Hon Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business) (Kevin Hollinrake MP) has today made the following statement.Earlier this year Parliament passed the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 ...

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14 Nov 2023 | Announcement Department for Business and Trade linked

Industrial Action Update

UIN: HCWS32 Earlier this year Parliament passed the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (“the Act”). The Act seeks to balance the ability of workers to strike with the rights and freedoms of the public to go about their daily …

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8 Nov 2023 | Announcement Department for Transport linked

Passenger Rail: Minimum Service Levels

UIN: HCWS19 I am pleased to inform the House of the laying of The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Passenger Railway Services) Regulations 2023 before Parliament, following publication of the Department’s response to its consultation on implementing minimum service l...

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8 Nov 2023 | Announcement Department of Health and Social Care linked

Ambulance Service: Minimum Service Levels

UIN: HCWS20 The Government is focused on making the hard but necessary long-term decisions that are in the best interests of the country, to put the UK on the right path for the future. The Government’s priority is to ensure …

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8 Nov 2023 | Announcement Department for Transport linked

Passenger Rail: Minimum Service Levels

UIN: HLWS17 My Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Transport (Andrew Stephenson), has made the following Ministerial Statement.I am pleased to inform the House of the laying of The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Passenger Railway Services) Regulations 2023...

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8 Nov 2023 | Announcement Department of Health and Social Care linked

Ambulance Service: Minimum Service Levels

UIN: HLWS18 My Hon friend the Minister of State (Minister for Health and Secondary Care) (Will Quince) has made the following Written Statement:The Government is focused on making the hard but necessary long-term decisions that are in the best interests …

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19 Sep 2023 | Announcement Department of Health and Social Care linked

Minimum Service Levels – Hospital Settings

UIN: HLWS1027 My Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Steve Barclay) has made the following written statement:The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 allows the Secretary of State to make regulations to establish minimum …

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19 Sep 2023 | Announcement Department of Health and Social Care linked

Minimum Service Levels – Hospital Settings

UIN: HCWS1046 The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 allows the Secretary of State to make regulations to establish minimum service levels for relevant services in the event of strike action. They must consult with such persons as they consider …

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18 Apr 2023 | Announcement Department of Health and Social Care linked

NHS Industrial Action Update

UIN: HLWS712 My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Steve Barclay) has made the following written statement:Yesterday evening NHS England published data about the impact of a 96-hour strike by junior doctors from 0700 …

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9 Feb 2023 | Announcement Home Office linked

Fire Update

UIN: HCWS562 On 10 January, the Government introduced the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill in Parliament. This is part of the Government’s plan to ensure the ability of the unions and their members to strike whilst giving confidence to the …

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9 Feb 2023 | Announcement Department of Health and Social Care linked

Health Update

UIN: HCWS563 The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill requires the Secretary of State to consult with such persons as they consider appropriate prior to making regulations to establish minimum service levels for relevant health services in the event of strike …

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20 Oct 2022 | Announcement Department for Transport linked

Transport Update

UIN: HCWS337 The Government is today introducing the Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill. This meets the Prime Minister’s commitment to introduce this Bill within her first thirty days of Parliament sitting and delivers on a commitment in the 2019 …

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20 Oct 2022 | Announcement Department for Transport linked

Transport Update

UIN: HLWS329 My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Anne-Marie Trevelyan), has made the following Ministerial Statement:The Government is today introducing the Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill. This meets the Prime Minister’s ...

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