Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications of the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling in the 2017 case of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts & Ors for the calculation of holiday pay entitlement for staff in her Department; and if he will make a statement.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities responded to the ruling of the Employment Appeal Tribunal on the Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts & Ors case in 2017 by implementing a holiday pay scheme in July 2019. The Tribunal ruled that if you regularly receive overtime, on-call allowances/standby rates or shift working payments, you will annually receive holiday pay where eligible. On implementation of the scheme in 2019 we backdated payments for holiday pay to 31 July 2017, the date of the ruling, for all those who regularly receive overtime, on-call allowances or shift working payments. The scheme is run annually in September of each year, with payments made for the previous year.