Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 6 November 2012.
David Gauke
The Exchequer Secretary
11:30,
6 November 2012
There will be a range of options—the minimum is 2,000, and the maximum is 50,000—but this is not going to be a matter that is compulsory. It will not be the right answer for every business, but there are some businesses that need flexibility to find employee status somewhere between a full employee and someone who is self-employed such as a partner, as many hundreds of thousands of people are. I think that it is a sensible, pragmatic response.