Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to change the 12 week pay reference period used to calculate paid annual leave; and whether his Department plans to implement the recommendation of the Taylor Review of a 52 week pay reference period for annual leave.

The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices was published in July 2017. On 7 February 2018, the Government published its response. We are taking forward work on the vast majority of the 53 recommendations in the Taylor Review. The response confirmed that we would set out proposals to introduce a 52 week reference period for holiday pay, as recommended in the Review. These proposals are included on our consultation on “Measures to increase transparency in the UK Labour Market”. This consultation is still open and we would welcome responses up to the deadline of 23 May 2018.