Question follow-through · 15031
Zero Hours Contracts: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of proposed changes in the regulation of zero hours contracts on average (a) staffing and (b) other costs for SMEs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of proposed changes in the regulation of zero hours contracts on average (a) staffing and (b) other costs for SMEs.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2024
Answer published
The potential impact of the proposed changes through the right to guaranteed hours, the right to advance notice of shifts and the right to payment for short notice shift cancellation, curtailment or movement are set out in the Government’s Impact Assessme...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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