Trade Union Industrial Action: Electronic Balloting

Thursday 3rd November 2016 Written Statements

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Margot James)]

Section 4 of the Trade Union Act 2016 specifies that the Government should make provision for an independent review to consider the delivery of secure methods of electronic balloting of trade union members.

The Government are committed to the independent review and I am pleased to announce today that Sir Ken Knight CBE, the former Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser for England, will chair the review.

I am publishing the terms of reference in parallel. The review will start shortly and the final report presented to Parliament no later than December 2017.

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