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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of agency workers who are on pay between assignment contracts in Wales.

There is limited data available on the number of agency workers on pay between assignment contracts. The Government has previously published research which, building on academic studies, suggested that between 8-20% of the UK’s estimated 1.29 million agency workers are on pay between assignment contracts. However, this estimate was taken from desk research and a small sample of interviews, so we do not consider it representative. There is no breakdown of pay between assignment contracts by geographic area.