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 maintain two jubilee bank holidays every year.

To mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, this year’s Spring bank holiday was moved to Thursday 2^nd June and there was an additional bank holiday on Friday 3^rd June.

The additional bank holiday on Friday 3^rd June provided an opportunity for communities throughout the United Kingdom to come together to celebrate this historic milestone.

There are no plans to make this a permanent bank holiday. Each bank holiday presents a considerable and significant cost to our economy and therefore each proposal has to be carefully considered on that basis.