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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of re-introducing Double Summer Time.

The Government believes that the current daylight-saving arrangements represent the optimal use of the available daylight across the UK. There is not currently sufficient evidence to support changing the current system of clock changes, and any decision to change the current system would need to be supported by a wide-ranging cost benefit analysis.