Point of Order

Lindsay Hoyle Excerpts

Tuesday 24th June 2014 Commons Chamber

[Wayne David (Caerphilly) (Lab)]

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. During yesterday’s Work and Pensions questions, I asked:

“How many people are now employed on zero-hours contracts?”,

to which the Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, the right hon. Member for Wirral West (Esther McVey), replied:

“Roughly the same number who were employed on zero-hours contracts under the Labour Government in 2000.”—[Official Report, 23 June 2014; Vol. 583, c. 14.]

According to the Office for National Statistics, 225,000 people were on zero-hours contracts in 2000. Today, according to the latest figures, 583,000 are employed on zero-hours contracts. Would it be appropriate for you to call the Minister of State back to the Chamber to correct her misleading statement?

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)]

It would not be, but the hon. Gentleman has put that on the record, and I know that, tenacious as the hon. Gentleman is, further questions will now be tabled, and everyone will have heard the point that has been made.