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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of agency workers have been employed on pay between assignment contracts under regulation 10 of the Agency Worker Regulations 2010 in the last 12 months.

The Department does not hold robust statistical information on the number or proportion of agency workers that have been employed on pay between assignment contracts.

The Government recently published qualitative research entitled Qualitative analysis of the use of Pay Between Assignment contracts for agency workers including the role of umbrella companies[1]. However, the focus of this research was qualitative and we do not believe that this research enables robust quantitative analysis of agency workers on pay between assignment contracts.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-use-of-pay-between-assignment-contracts-for-agency-workers-including-the-role-of-umbrella-organisations