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Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Social Services: Living Wage ( 4 Apr 2017)

Margot James: Workers who are required to be available to perform work as and when called upon are entitled to the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) for the entire shift if they are deemed to be “working”. This remains the case, even if they are permitted to sleep during that shift. The Government asks the Low Pay Commission (LPC) to monitor and evaluate the impact of the...

Written Answers — HM Treasury: Minimum Wage ( 3 Apr 2017)

Tulip Siddiq: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) cases of national minimum wage compliance the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) National Minimum Wage Risk Unit has investigated, (b) notices of underpayment have been issued to employers for that non-compliance, (c) employers have been fined the maximum amount for non-compliance and (d) employers have been taken to civil court or an employment...

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Universal Credit ( 3 Apr 2017)

Baroness Lister of Burtersett: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the rationale for setting a single benefit cap earnings exception threshold in Universal Credit linked to the National Living Wage; and whether this will require under-25s receiving the lower National Minimum Wage, including young lone parents, to work a longer number of hours before qualifying for the exception.

Petition - Persecution of Christians: Sanitary Products (30 Mar 2017)

Jane Ellison: ...taken 1.3 million of the lowest paid out of income tax altogether, compared with 2015-16. A significant proportion of them will of course be women. Next week, we will increase the national living wage to £7.50 an hour, which marks a £1,400 a year increase in earnings for a full-time worker on the national minimum wage since the introduction of the national living wage in April 2016. It...

Scottish Parliament: Public Transport (Child Fares) (30 Mar 2017)

Pauline McNeill: ...a bit more focus on the 14 to 19 age group—the late teens. For example, those who are 16 or 17 are four and a half times less likely to be in employment than those in the 18 to 21 age group, the minimum wage for young people is half that for adults and apprentices earn even less than that. It is unfair with regard to the independence of 16-year-olds that, on their 16th birthday, they...

School Funding (London) — [Mr David Hanson in the Chair] (29 Mar 2017)

James Berry: ...other pressures on their budgets. Some of those have been mentioned. They include increased employers’ national insurance contributions, increased pension contributions, increased national living wage, the apprenticeship levy, the equalisation of sixth-form and further education funding, the reduction in the education services grant and a general increase in costs. Another factor that I...

Sittings of the House: Tyne Marine Office (27 Mar 2017)

Emma Lewell-Buck: ...to tackle the effect of the low-cost crewing model in constituencies such as mine. I understand from the maritime unions that the Government are taking encouraging steps on applying the national minimum wage for seafarers. We need significant reforms such as that, not the closure of marine offices, to revive our traditional seafaring communities. I am pleased that South Tyneside College...

Bus Services Bill [Lords]: National strategy (27 Mar 2017)

John Pugh: ...the technical route, and the apprenticeship route is now being sold fervently by almost all Government Members, apprentices do not really get a look in: an apprentice aged 16 to 18 gets a bare £4 minimum wage. We want to make the apprenticeship route more attractive, and there is some evidence that where schemes are introduced, they are highly successful. Anecdotal evidence suggests that...

Technical and Further Education Bill - Report (27 Mar 2017)

Lord Nash: The noble Lord has raised that before. As we discussed at that time, it is illegal to pay below the minimum wage. We and HMRC are focused on ensuring that it does not happen. We all share the noble Lord’s concern about this. I assure him that we will do everything we can to stamp out such practices. One of the core principles of our reforms is that an apprenticeship is a genuine job. As...

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Pay (27 Mar 2017)

Nicky Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations his Department has received on the national minimum wage and national living wage laws applying to staff who are asleep during a sleep-in shift at work.

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Living Wage and Minimum Wage: Sleep (27 Mar 2017)

Nicky Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations the Government has received on the applicability of the national minimum wage and the national living wage to staff who are asleep during a sleep-in shift at work.

Written Answers — HM Treasury: Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Pay (24 Mar 2017)

Charlie Elphicke: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many investigations have been launched into EU hauliers paying below the minimum wage to their drivers in each of the last five years for which data is available; and how many of those investigations resulted in successful prosecution.

Education: Nursery and Early Years - Question (23 Mar 2017)

Lord Watson of Invergowrie: ...adequate staff to ensure their development. That is fine—that is as it should be—but the Family and Childcare Trust recently reported that one in 10 nursery workers do not receive the national minimum wage. Will the Minister work with Ms Dinenage and other Ministers to ensure that all childcare workers are properly and fairly paid and that public, taxpayers’ money does not go to...

The Minister for Women and Equalities Was Asked: Topical Questions (23 Mar 2017)

Caroline Dinenage: ...is available under the help with fees schemes. We propose that the gross monthly income threshold for a full fee remission should increase to £1,250, which is broadly the level of the national minimum wage.

Written Answers — Home Office: Home Office: Procurement (23 Mar 2017)

Sarah Newton: Home Office requires all of its suppliers to comply with the legal minimum standards of pay as set out in the Government’s National Living Wage legislation. This is a contractual obligation on the supplier and is monitored through contract compliance mechanisms. We do not require or stipulate in our contractual arrangements a requirement to meet the Living Wage Foundation’s real living...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Procurement (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Duncan: To date the FCO or FCO Services have not included a stipulation to pay the real living wage in any major contract. All contracts include a requirement to pay the National minimum wage and the Foreign Secretary has asked officials to review the FCO's approach to the London Living wage. Since April 2014, one contract was procured for the British Council in the UK. All the staff under this...

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Department for Transport: Procurement (22 Mar 2017)

John Hayes: The Government believes that people have the right to a higher wage and not to be punished by higher taxes. As part of this, from April 2016, we introduced a new mandatory National Living Wage (NLW) for workers aged 25 and above, and this will rise to £7.50 an hour in April 2017. DfT contractors are required to comply with all legal requirements, including payment of the National Minimum...

Written Answers — Department for Exiting the European Union: Department for Exiting the European Union: Procurement (22 Mar 2017)

David Jones: The Government believes that people have the right to a higher wage and not to be punished by higher taxes. As part of this, from April 2016, we introduced a new mandatory National Living Wage (NLW) for workers aged 25 and above, and this will rise to £7.50 an hour in April 2017. We insist that employers pay at least the National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above and the National...

Written Answers — Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Procurement (22 Mar 2017)

Matthew Hancock: The Government believes that people have the right to a higher wage and not to be punished by higher taxes. As part of this, from April 2016, we introduced a new mandatory National Living Wage (NLW) for workers aged 25 and above, and this will rise to £7.50 an hour in April 2017. We insist that employers pay at least the National Minimum Wage.

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Department for Work and Pensions: Procurement (22 Mar 2017)

Caroline Nokes: DWP does not have any contracts which require the contractor to pay a specific wage. From April 2016 the Government introduced a new mandatory National Living Wage (NLW) for workers aged 25 and above, and this will rise to £7.50 an hour in April 2017. All employers must pay at least the National Minimum Wage.


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