The Reform UK leader resigned as the MP for Clacton at the start of July and forced a byelection Yesterday the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade published a document saying that the government’s plan to ban zero-hours contracts could cost businesses up to £3bn a year. The government has already legislated for the ban, but it has not yet decided some of the precise details about how this will work and the document was published as part of a consultation . DBIST says: The government has taken this forward through 3 measures in the Employment Rights Act 2025 , giving employees the right to: -guaranteed hours, where the number of hours offered reflects the hours worked by a qualifying worker during a reference period We will look very carefully at how we implement the chan