2023/F96

Dear Francis,

Thank you for your email.

Please see below in response to your FOI request.

(1) A copy of any agreements between the university and trade unions concerning casualisation, i.e. the use of fixed-term contracts, zero-hours contracts or similar contracts. - None

(2) The dates any such agreements were reached. - N/A

(3) Annual statistics regarding the number of staff employed on fixed-term contracts, dating from before any agreements mentioned in (1) to the present day. If no such agreements exist, then please provide annual statistics for the last five years. - This information is available via HESA, so therefore your refused under s.21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You can access the data via this page - https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis.... You can filter by this (or any other university) and view the no of fixed-term contracts by academic year. You can also contact HESA directly if you require any further guidance.

(4) Annual statistics as in (3) regarding the number of staff employed on zero-hours contracts (if possible separated into postgraduate students who are also employed by the university, and other staff employed on zero-hours contracts). 0 for each of the past 5 years – we do not use zero-hour contracts.

(5) Minutes of meetings between the university and trade unions at which progress of implementation of the agreements mentioned in (1) were discussed. N/A

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Yours sincerely

Queen Mary University London