Question follow-through · 66004
Zero Hours Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of employment protections for individuals engaged on zero-hour contracts.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of employment protections for individuals engaged on zero-hour contracts.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government does not believe that individuals engaged on zero-hours contracts currently benefit from sufficient employment protections.The Government is addressing this through the Employment Rights Bill, by ensuring that employers have to offer qualif...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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