Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the proportion of workers in the childcare sector who are employed on zero-hour contracts.

We collect data about the early years workforce through our Survey of Childcare and Early Years Providers, England. Data on zero-hour contracts is not published in the SFR but is available from the raw data on the UK data archive at:

https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8166&type=data%20catalogue.

The Survey of Childcare and Early Years Providers, England, 2016 is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2016.