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

What recent assessment his Department has made of the equity of employment contract terms and conditions in the supermarket sector.

The Government is committed to upgrading workers’ rights and protecting the most vulnerable workers. Our legal framework already ensures that employers should always treat their employees fairly, and our Good Work Plan will introduce the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation.

In the retail sector specifically, the industry-led Retail Sector Council has identified employment as a priority workstream and this will be discussed at our next meeting on 20 June.