NHS: Zero Hours Contracts

(asked on 2nd November 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of people employed in the NHS who (a) have a zero-hours contract, for example as a bank staff arrangement as their sole or primary employment with the NHS, and (b) have a zero-hours contract with the NHS, for example as a bank staff arrangement where this is not their sole or primary employment.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 11th November 2026

The information is not held centrally in the form requested.

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