Question follow-through · 44595
Department for Business and Trade: Zero Hours Contracts
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 7 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
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.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
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 Departm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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