| Heading: |
Business: Summertime |
| Question ID: |
1815550 |
| UIN: |
62037 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5141 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alex Mayer
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Alex Mayer
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits for businesses of adopting Single/Double Summer Time. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-01 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4418 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Justin Madders
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| Answering Member handle: |
justinmadders
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@justinmadders
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| Answer text: |
The Government believes the current daylight-saving arrangements represent the optimal use of the available daylight across the UK. Therefore, we have no plans to introduce double summertime, permanent summertime, or other such changes which would require... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |