Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2024 to Question 10991 on Civil Service: Zero Hours Contracts, how many Cabinet Office (a) staff and (b) contractors are on zero hour contracts in the most recent period for which data is available.

Cabinet Office has 423 Contingent Labour workers on zero hour contracts as at 28 April 2025 via the contract Cabinet Office has with Alexander Mann Solutions Ltd.

Cabinet Office uses zero hours contracts to selectively manage temporary demand. To end exploitative zero hours contracts, under the government’s plans to Make Work Pay legislation will be brought in to give workers on zero hours contracts and workers with a ‘low’ number of guaranteed hours, who regularly work more than these hours, the ability to move to guaranteed hours contracts which reflect the hours they regularly work over a 12-week reference period.