Business: Conditions of Employment and Pay

(asked on 3rd November 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impacts of improving (a) terms and conditions and (b) pay on business performance.


Answered by
Kevin Hollinrake Portrait
Kevin Hollinrake
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 11th November 2022

We are determined to make the UK the best place in the world to work and grow a business.

Over the past year, we have proven our commitment to supporting workers across the UK, including raising the National Living Wage to its highest rate yet. The Government is also backing five Private Members’ Bills which have been introduced as a result of the Private Members’ Bill ballot in the House of Commons which will increase workforce participation, protect vulnerable workers, and level the playing field, ensuring unscrupulous businesses don’t have a competitive advantage.

These Bills build on the strengths of our flexible and dynamic labour market and give businesses the confidence to create jobs and invest in their workforce, allowing them to generate long-term prosperity and economic growth.

As a result of government action, there are now more employees on the payroll than ever before, and we will continue to build a high skilled, high productivity, high wage economy that delivers on our ambition to make the UK the best place in the world to work.

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