Zero-hours Contracts

Baroness Falkner of Margravine Excerpts

Thursday 11th June 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Neville-Rolfe]

I am glad my noble friend mentioned the value of flexibility. We have asked officials to look at issues facing those on zero-hours contracts to see whether any further voluntary or statutory action is necessary because of the sort of points he has made.

[Baroness Falkner of Margravine (LD)]

My Lords, will the Minister answer my noble friend Lord Stoneham’s point that the Government need to collect the data to be able to get a picture of what is going on with these contracts? Will she at least write to him and place a copy in the Library so that we know what information the Government have?

[Baroness Neville-Rolfe]

My Lords, I am happy to write with what data we have through the ONS and, indeed, to explain some of the methodological problems in this.