This year, UK residents have been treated to an extra bank holiday. Thanks to the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the extra date has been added to the calendar for summer 2022.
This will make a total of nine bank holidays for the year with five of those still to come. Below is the list of what we still have to look forward to this year.
While there have been calls to keep the additional date as a permanent fixture on the UK calendar, to "honour The Queen", nothing has been confirmed. It has ben reported that the Chancellor is expected to consider proposals. However, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman stressed this year’s extra bank holiday was to mark a “unique” event and added: “I’m not aware of any plans to make it permanent.”
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Campaigners have been calling to make the holiday permanent from 2023 – with the move backed by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Hospitality UK, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others. The spokesman said a new bank holiday was estimated to cost the economy £2 billion.
As it stands, here is the list of Bank Holiday's still to come in 2022
- Spring Bank Holiday: Thursday, June 2, 2022
- Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday: Friday, June 3, 2022
- Summer Bank Holiday: Monday, August 28, 2022
- Boxing Day: Monday December 26, 2022
- Christmas Day (substitute day): Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Don't be fooled by the Christmas Day bank holiday date. The festivity hasn't moved. Christmas Day is, as always, on December 25. However, as it falls on a Sunday, a ‘substitute’ weekday becomes a bank holiday, normally the following Monday but as in this case the Monday is already a bank holiday (Boxing Day), the Tuesday becomes the substitute.
