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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2018 to Question 128658 on Social Services: Pay, if he will publish the evidence on the drawbacks on requesting employers to disaggregate hours works on payslips.

The Department met with employers, trade unions and payroll providers over the course of 2017 and concluded it would be disproportionately burdensome to require employers to disaggregate hours on payslips.

The accompanying Impact Assessment to The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Itemised Pay Statement) (Amendment) Order 2018 estimates that 88 per cent of employers already include the number of hours on payslips – some of whom are likely to disaggregate hours. This Impact Assessment is available on www.legislation.gov.uk.