Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the cost to the public purse was of the Taylor review of modern working practices.

The total calculable cost of the Review was £73,724.45. This figure includes the cost of the Review Chair’s time, travel expenses for the Chair and expert panel members, costs of regional events and the cost of design and printing the report.

In addition to the costs set out above, a number of Government policy officials, lawyers and analysts from a number of Government departments worked on this Review and these costs were met from existing departmental budgets.