Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 1134
Zero Hours Contracts
Tabled: 22 July 2024
Answered: 30 July 2024
Question
Tracy Gilbert
Labour — Edinburgh North and Leith
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to page 20 of the King’s Speech Background Briefing Notes, published by the Prime Minister's Office on 17 July 2024, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of people w
Answer
Justin MaddersThe latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (for January to March 2024) suggest that around 1,030,000 people (representing 3.1% of total employment) were employed on a zero-hours contract in the UK.Over the same period there were approximat...
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