Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to setting the fines for employers that break rules on trade union access to the workplace as a percentage of global turnover.

In our consultation, Make Work Pay: trade union right of access, we sought views on several elements of the new statutory access framework, including on the way that the policy is enforced.

Officials are carefully reviewing all responses, and the government will publish a response in due course. This will include next steps on the enforcement model.