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Written Question
Zero Hours Contracts
Monday 4th April 2016

Asked by: Baroness Quin (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the proportion of people on zero-hours contracts who are seeking full-time employment with guaranteed pay and hours of work.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)

The Government has not made an assessment.

ONS statistics published on 9 March 2016, for the fourth quarter of 2015, show that for those individuals on a zero hours contract in their main job, 63 per cent were not looking for more hours or a different job.