“Non- guaranteed hour contracts (NGHC) include but are not exclusively, ‘zero-hour’ contracts….”

“Around 13% of all employees surveyed reported some use of NGHC’s, including almost half of all businesses in tourism, catering and the food sectors.  More than one in five employers in health and social work report using them, although they are to be found relatively rarely in financial and professional services and the manufacturing, energy and agricultural industries”:

Press release:

2014 ONS Non-guaranteed hour contracts – press release

Report:

2014 ONS Non-guaranteed hour contracts survey report