Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Prime Minister’s comments on the 11 January (HC Deb col 553) that minimum service levels during strike action “should not be controversial” as they are present in France, Italy and Spain, what assessment they have made of those countries’ provision of powers to remove protection from unfair dismissal for public sector workers on strike.

The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill outlines appropriate enforcement mechanisms to maximise the assurance that Minimum Service Levels (MSLs) will be achieved on strike days where they are applied, whilst also ensuring that these mechanisms are consistent with existing trade union legislation.