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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he and his Department still plan to create a single enforcement body for employment rights as committed to in the Conservative 2019 Manifesto; and what timeline he is working to, to bring forward promised legislation on this.

Creating a new body is a substantial organisational change and we are making sure that all aspects of this reform have been thoroughly considered. Primary legislation will be required to create this new body and so timing will be dependent on the legislative timetable.