Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of companies registered in (a) Paisley and Renfrewshire North constituency, (b) Renfrewshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK that do not recognise trades unions.

This Department does not hold information on to whether or not individual employers recognise a trade union or not.

You may be interested in the following figures, from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study (WERS), showing percentage of workplaces with recognised unions where the workplace is located in Scotland, the other Government Office Regions and Great Britain as a whole. This does not include information on Northern Ireland workplaces where employment law is devolved.

More information on the WERS data is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/workplace-employment-relations-study-wers