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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason he did not carry out a consultation before laying the Liability of Trade Unions in Proceedings in Tort (Increase of Limits on Damages) Order 2022.

This change only increases the limits in line with inflation to match what they would have been had they increased year on year since 1982.

As no other changes to the trade union liabilities for damages regime are being proposed, the Government does not consider that further consultation is necessary.