Ms Denise Walker:

The typical contract handed out commits that person to exclusivity on that job and a 55-hour week. With the driving sector particularly, the majority of the drivers would be working well in excess of that 55-hour week. In terms of the potential to move from job to job, therefore, it is physically impossible for that individual to be employed on a number of locations at once. The drivers here will be able to tell the Chairman more about their feel for the percentages, so to speak, of those who are self-employed but it would not be uncommon for two people to be doing roughly the same job or for one who was self-assessed working alongside someone who was on a PAYE type contract. That in itself would tell me that employment does not need to be self-assessed or self-employed-----