Member

In rural and coastal areas, the median salary is considerably lower than in many towns and cities around the country. Of course, the employer would only be able to do that based on the quality and demand from customers for that role. People had no expectation that they would simply be given an extra contract, recognising the contracted work they already had elsewhere, in quite the same way that I think the Government seem to consider that anybody on certain kinds of contracts is entirely reliant. Thinking about the purpose of the Bill, we should certainly seek to increase the number of people in employment, given that they are the words of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Secretary of State in their Next Steps to Make Work Pay when they describe the intended outcomes of this legislation.