Derek Thomas – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Thomas on 2016-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on the profit of convenience stores of proposals to devolve Sunday trading restrictions; and what the evidential basis for that estimate was.

Anna Soubry

My Department has carried out an assessment of the impacts of devolving the power to extend Sunday trading hours and this will be published shortly.