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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has any plans to increase legal protections from redundancy for pregnant employees, and if he will make a statement.

We published a consultation document containing proposals to extend existing protections against redundancy for pregnant women and new parents. The consultation closed on 5th April 2019.

We plan to publish the Government Response in due course.