Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what progress has been made to implement the commitment to improve the rights of self-employed workers as set out in the government’s ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’.

Measures to tackle late payments are progressing through Parliament and on 14 October 2026, we launched a consultation on employment status reform and rights for the self-employed, seeking views on the remaining measures from the Plan to Make Work Pay: a new right to a written statement, extension of blacklisting protections and potential extension of health and safety protections.

The government is committed to doing more to support the genuinely self-employed. We recently announced the extension of parental pay to the self-employed and consulted on extending the Employment Rights Act 2025’s non-disclosure agreement measure to the self-employed.