Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's consultation document entitled Make Work Pay: ending one-sided flexibility – reforms of zero hours and similar contracts, published on 2 June 2026, what assumptions were used in modelling worker take-up of guaranteed-hours contracts under different hours thresholds.

The government has published a comprehensive assessment of the potential impacts of the zero hours contract measures in the Employment Rights Act 2025, which sets out the analytical approach taken to assessing these measures.

The government has published its consultation to understand further the impacts that different options could have on employers and workers, and will publish further analysis in due course as we implement the measures.