Department for Business and Trade: Zero Hours Contracts
(asked on 7th April 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department (a) employs staff and (b) uses contractors on zero hour contracts; and whether any (i) staff and (ii) contractors are paid less than the London Living Wage.
Answered by
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Department for Business and Trade does not use zero hours contracts for staff or contractors. Civil Servants are employed either as Senior Civil Servants or as one of the Delegated Grades with salaries determined by the relevant pay bands. The Department does not pay any staff or contractors less than the London living wage and this applies to staff based in London and Nationally. Please see the tables below for our current National and London pay scales for Delegated Grades.
DBT pay bands 2024/25 - London
Grade | London min | London max |
AO (spot rate) | £32,051 | £32,051 |
EO | £32,744 | £34,669 |
HEO | £38,138 | £39,994 |
Fast Stream | £35,483 | £39,578 |
SEO | £44,942 | £48,817 |
G7 | £59,450 | £66,338 |
G6 | £70,845 | £78,192 |
DBT pay bands 2024/25 - National
Grade | National min | National max |
AO (spot rate) | £27,685 | £27,685 |
EO | £28,695 | £30,664 |
HEO | £34,254 | £36,142 |
Fast Stream | £35,483 | £39,578 |
SEO | £41,156 | £45,112 |
G7 | £55,836 | £62,823 |
G6 | £67,170 | £76,117 |