Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that workers are able to meet their trade union in an accessible location when their trade union is granted access to the workplace.

In our consultation, Make Work Pay: trade union right of access, we sought views on operational aspects of the new statutory access framework, including steps the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) must consider reasonable for employers to take to facilitate access.

Officials are currently reviewing responses, and the government will publish a response before finalising these details in secondary legislation.

We will also consult on a draft Code of Practice in due course which will provide detail on how statutory access should operate in different types of workplaces.