Retail Trade: Opening Hours

(asked on 3rd March 2020) - View Source

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

What plans he has to enable high street shops to set their opening hours.


Answered by
Paul Scully Portrait
Paul Scully
This question was answered on 3rd March 2020

Most shops are not constrained in their choices of opening hours.

In England and Wales large shops may only open for six consecutive hours between 10am and 6pm on a Sunday. They may not open on Easter Sunday or Christmas Day.

We have no plans to change these rules.

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