Legislation – Employment Rights Act 2025
Changes to legislation:
Employment Rights Act 2025, Section 95 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 06 April 2026. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
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- s. 95 coming into force by S.I. 2026/323 reg. 4(1)(2)reg. 4(6)(b)
Part 5Enforcement of labour market legislation
Strategies and reports
95Annual reports
(1)
As soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each financial year, the Secretary of State must prepare and publish an annual report for that year.
(2)
The annual report must include the following—
(a)
an assessment of the extent to which enforcement functions of the Secretary of State were exercised in accordance with the applicable strategy during the year;
(b)
an assessment of the extent to which the applicable strategy had an effect on the scale and nature of non-compliance with relevant labour market legislation during the year.
(3)
Before publishing an annual report under this section, the Secretary of State must consult the Advisory Board.
(4)
The Secretary of State must lay before Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly a copy of every annual report published under this section.
(5)
In this section—
“the applicable strategy”, in relation to a financial year, means any labour market enforcement strategy published under section 94 that has effect for that year;
“financial year” means—
(a)
the period beginning with the day on which this section comes into force and ending with the following 31 March, and
(b)
each successive period of 12 months.