Subsections (1) and (2) amend the Procurement Act 2023 to create a power for a Minister of the Crown, the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers to make regulations and to impose a duty to publish a statutory code of practice. These powers are intended to be used to set out measures to avoid the emergence of a workforce consisting of ex-public sector employees and private sector employees working on the same outsourced contract but with each group on different terms and conditions, commonly known as a "two-tier workforce". The regulations will be made for the purposes of ensuring that:
transferring workers of a specified description are treated no less favourably as workers of the supplier or a sub-contractor than they were as workers of the contracting authority they were transferred from; and
other workers of the supplier or a sub-contractor who are not transferring workers and are of a specified description are treated no less favourably than those transferring workers.
	Subsection (2) inserts new Part 5A (Outsourcing: Protection of workers) into the Procurement Act 2023.
	Subsection (3) amends section 2 of the Procurement Act 2023 to provide that the definition of "contracting authority" within that Act has an extended meaning in relation to certain contracts regulated under the new Part 5A.
	Subsection (4) amends section 122 of the Procurement Act 2023 to provide that regulations made under this power must use the affirmative procedure.
	Subsection (5) amends section 123 of the Procurement Act 2023 to provide that the definition of "appropriate authority" has a different meaning within the new Part 5A than it does in the rest of that Act.
	Subsection (6) amends section 124 of the Procurement Act 2023 by inserting an additional definition for "appropriate authority" that is specific to section 83A of the new Part 5A.
	Subsection (7) amends Schedule 9A of the Procurement Act 2023 to provide that the new Part 5A applies to devolved Scottish authorities that wish to participate in a joint procurement or similar arrangement which is governed by that Act , or to make use of a framework or dynamic market established under the Act.
Part 2: Other Matters Relating to Employment Public sector outsourcing: protection of workers Section 32: Public sector outsourcing: protection of workers