Question follow-through · 12299
Living Wage and Minimum Wage: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of workers that will benefit from the increase to the (a) National Minimum Wage and (b) National Living Wage in Birmingham.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 1 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 8 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of workers that will benefit from the increase to the (a) National Minimum Wage and (b) National Living Wage in Birmingham.
5 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Nov 2024
Answer published
In total, over 3 million workers are expected to receive a pay rise due to increases to the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage in April 2025. We will also publish an Impact Assessment alongside the legislation that implements the increase to t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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