Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 9368

Zero-hours Contracts

Tabled: 15 October 2024
Answered: 21 October 2024
Named Day

Question

Andrew Cooper

LabourMid Cheshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the prevalence of zero-hours contracts in the labour market in (a) Mid Cheshire constituency, (b) Cheshire and (c) England.

Answer

Justin Madders
The latest figures (for April to June 2024) from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest that around 1,030,000 people (3.1% of total employment) were employed on a zero-hours contract in the UK. ONS do not publish constituency level data on zero-...

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