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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to provide employees identical rights from their first day of employment as someone has worked for 2 years for the same employer.

The current qualifying periods for employment rights contribute to jobs creation and economic growth through giving businesses more confidence when they consider taking on people. They also give more time to get the employment relationship right. The Government has no plans to change policy.