1. Do you have an unfettered right to substitution? 2. Do you have no mutuality of obligation? 3. Are you... not controlled, directed or supervised as to how you perform your work by anyone in the contractual chain (or subject to the rights of any such person to control, direct or supervise you)? 4. Do you take financial risk or are responsible for defects? 5. Do you have no statutory employment rights? e.g. holiday pay, AWR entitlement, statutory sick pay, unfair dismissal rights, etc. 6. Are you self-employed and responsible for paying taxes to HMRC? 7. Are you or will you be registered with HMRC as self-employed, and that evidence will be provided to document this within an acceptable time frame? 8. Can you confirm that your last piece of work was not as an employee of the end client carrying out similar work? 9. Can you confirm that you have not been previously engaged as an employee in a similar role with the same end client within 3 months of the current assignment?