Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals to enable secondary industrial action.

The Government believes that industrial action should only take place where there is a workplace dispute between a group of workers and their direct employer. Secondary action has proved to be very damaging to the UK economy in the past.

That is why secondary action is prohibited under our trade union legislation. This ban on secondary action was upheld by the European Court of Human Rights in 2014.