Sir Charlie Mayfield

"I can't tell you how many people I've met who said: 'I was signed off work for three months, or six months, and I never had any contact with my employer at all.'"

"Fixing these problems at the fundamental level, could make a really big contribution to getting this economy working better — for employers, for employees, for the taxpayer, for all of us."

"This is not a zero-sum game. It's not a question of employers win and employees lose and vice versa. Everybody can win."

"You wouldn't have had to build a single house, open a new channel of immigration, you wouldn't have to wait for a cohort of young people to join the workplace. This is basically growth hiding in plain sight."

"I'm not worried about a day here and a day there. It is more about longer term issues."

"If you can keep more people in work, there's a massive opportunity for us to add billions to the economy and, frankly, to people's livelihoods."