Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 95495

Self Employment: Health Services

Tabled: 28 November 2025
Answered: 8 December 2025

Question

Ian Roome

Liberal DemocratNorth Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) employment rights and (b) income security of self-employed workers in the healthcare sector.

Answer

Kate Dearden
The Government is committed to strengthening protections for the self-employed, benefitting those in healthcare, including a new right to a written contract, and extension of health and safety and blacklisting protections. The parental leave and pay revie...

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