Source · Select Committees · Business and Trade Committee
Recommendation 20
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Accepted
We welcome the strong level of engagement between the Government and business in the early...
Recommendation
We welcome the strong level of engagement between the Government and business in the early months of the pandemic. The Government must be as open with the business sector as possible, particularly by providing reasonable notice and 24 The impact of Coronavirus on businesses and workers: interim pre-Budget report detail of impending changes to health and business restrictions, and working as constructively as it did in spring and summer 2020 to develop comprehensive and practical guidance on how businesses should adapt to changing health measures. We recommend that the Government proactively engages with businesses and trade union leaders on an on-going basis, to ensure feedback is built into Government policy-making as we recover from the economic consequences of the pandemic. (Paragraph 69) The impact of Coronavirus on businesses and workers: interim pre-Budget report 25
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The government accepts the recommendation for proactive and ongoing engagement with businesses and trade union leaders. It confirms plans to continue engagement, communicate changes with sufficient notice, and build feedback into policymaking as the economy recovers.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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74. We thank the Committee for their recognition of the strong level of engagement carried out by Government in spring/summer 2020. During 2020, BEIS Ministers carried out roughly three times as many engagements with businesses than the same period in 2019. This engagement transitioned away from immediate support measures required early on in the pandemic, towards more targeted engagement on the developing and refining the safer working guidance for different working environments.
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