Trade and Industry written question – answered at on 5 April 2005.
Mr Kevin McNamara
Labour, Kingston upon Hull North
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many people in the Kingston upon Hull North Constituency have benefited from the national minimum wage since its introduction.
Gerry Sutcliffe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Trade and Industry) (Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs)
Reliable figures cannot be produced for Kingston upon Hull due to small sample size.
The DTI estimates that around 100,000 people in Yorkshire and the Humber stood to benefit from the introduction of the national minimum wage in October 1999. It is estimated that around 130,000 people in Yorkshire and the Humber stood to benefit from the October 2004 uprating of the national minimum wage. The DTI has based the October 1999 estimate on the Office for National Statistics' central estimate of low pay; the 2004 estimate is based on data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
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