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Temporary Employment: Working Hours

Asked by Sir Desmond SwayneConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 15 December 2025UIN 98731

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, under the provisions of the Employment Rights Bill, in what circumstances will responsibility for providing guaranteed hours to an agency worker default from the end hirer to the employment agency.

Answered by Kate Dearden

The government will consult on the details of the measures to end exploitative zero hours contracts to inform regulations. Decisions on the circumstances in which regulations might place the duty to offer agency workers guaranteed hours on the agency or another intermediary in the supply chain, as opposed to the end hirer, will depend on the outcome of this consultation.

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