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Gig Economy: Employment

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A holding response to the Noble Peer’s Parliamentary Question of 18th April is attached in the answer.answer and the completed response will be deposited in the House of Lords Library.

The Rt Hon. the Lord Field of Birkenhead
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
03 May 2023

Dear Lord Field,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking how many "gig economy" workers there are in the UK workforce at present; and how many there were in each of the previous five years (HL7206). Statisticians at the Office for National Statistics are currently undertaking additional analysis to answer your question and will place a copy in the House of Lords Library as soon as it is complete.

Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond