questionText: 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, if he will set out the weighting applied to the costs and benefits to (a) workers and (b) employers when considering where to set the hours threshold.
answerText: The government’s preference is to set the threshold within the range of 8 to 20 hours per week on the basis that options within this range are more likely to provide a favourable balance of costs and benefits.We are consulting on the hours threshold and w...
heading: Working Hours