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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will make an estimate of the average (a) hourly and (b) weekly wages of (i) agency workers and (ii) directly employed staff working in comparable (A) jobs and (B) sectors.

The Government does not believe that making such an estimate is practicable as there is insufficient data available to do so.

Following the Government’s response to the Taylor Review, the Government is currently consulting on potential changes to the enforcement of the Agency Worker Regulations and specifically on the use of the “Swedish Derogation”.