Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2024 to Question 4661, if he will (a) make an assessment of the potential impact of repealing the Trade Union Act 2016 on levels industrial action and (b) review the industrial action sections of the National Risk Register in the context of that assessment.

The Government is publishing an impact assessment of the repeal of the Trade Union Act 2016 shortly. This will be in line with the HMT Green Book and the Better Regulation Framework, and consideration will be given to potential wider impacts.

All risks in the National Risk Register, including those related to industrial action, are kept under review to ensure that they are the most appropriate scenarios to inform emergency preparedness and resilience activity and to reflect the risk landscape.