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Campaign group Keep Sunday Special have reissued their calls to MPs to vote against proposals to devolve Sunday trading hours to local authorities, highlighting the failure of Government officials to go through a legitimate and robust consultation process in making their...

The Department for Business has refused to respond to a Freedom of Information request on the consultation to devolve Sunday trading powers to local authorities, citing a ‘disproportionate level of disruption to the Department’s mainstream activities that would be caused in...

Campaigners are urging MPs not to be taken in by reports that government plans to devolve Sunday trading decisions to local authorities will only be applied to high streets. 

While Mr Lewis has suggested in an article in the Telegraph that there had been a ‘last minute...

New research released today has outlined the damage that will be done to Scottish shop workers if the SNP do not vote against the Government on plans to devolve Sunday trading powers to England and Wales.

The report, produced by Edinburgh-based economic consultancy...

Business Minister Anna Soubry has admitted to parliament that the Government has failed to commission any research over the last ten years to look into the impact of Sunday trading deregulation.

In an answer to a parliamentary question tabled by Kevin Brennan MP,...

A group of organisations have issued Government with notice to legally challenge their decision to press ahead with proposals to change Sunday trading regulations.

The Government has been issued with a letter before action from the Keep Sunday Special group, setting...

Campaign group Keep Sunday Special has welcomed a letter from Conservative MPs, outlining their support for the existing Sunday trading regulations.

The letter, published in the Telegraph today (11 November), details a list of 20 MPs who have called on the Government...

Proposed changes to Sunday trading legislation could have a negative impact on families, according to research from the Social Market Foundation. 

The Social Market Foundation has examined plans to devolve Sunday trading powers to local authorities using the Prime...

Campaign group Keep Sunday Special has set out its opposition to proposed changes to remove Sunday trading regulations, detailing the negative impact that the changes would have on families, workers and retailers in its submission to the Government’s consultation on the issue...

Keep Sunday Special has today launched a campaign to keep the popular Sunday trading laws, which help families, communities and small retailers.

In a letter to the Prime Minister, a wide range of Keep Sunday Special supporters have highlighted how a change to current...

It is extremely disappointing that the Government is yet again seeking changes to Sunday trading, particularly after promising before the election they had no plans to relax the law.

Devolving powers to vary opening times down to local authorities and elected mayors...

The following appeared in the August 9th edition of the Sunday Express, also available here

Exactly a year ago the Prime Minister spoke to the...