Speeches

Frank Field – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-07-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people working for her Department or its executive agencies on a (a) directly employed, (b) agency or (c) outsourced basis are paid less than the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation; and how many of those people are employed on zero-hours contracts.

Matt Hancock

All employees are by law required to be paid the National Living Wage. No directly employed or agency staff are employed on zero hour contacts.