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 12 September 2018 to Question 170362 on Employment, what steps he has taken to develop a minimum job quality standard.
In response to the Taylor Review, Government has committed to publish a final list of quality of work measures and a baseline assessment of quality of work currently in the UK economy.
We welcome the Carnegie Trust’s report, published on 7th September, as a valuable input to this work. We are currently considering their recommendations and will respond in due course. As part of this, BEIS officials are engaging with ONS to understand whether and how the Carnegie Trust’s recommendations could be implemented in practice.