Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Public Bodies

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered at on 22 January 2019.

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Photo of Catherine West Catherine West Labour, Hornsey and Wood Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff at (a) Arts Council England, (b) Big Lottery Fund, (c) the British Film Institute, (d) the British Library and (e) the British Museum (i) inside and (ii) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.

Photo of Catherine West Catherine West Labour, Hornsey and Wood Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff at (a) Arts Council England, (b) Big Lottery Fund, (c) the British Film Institute, (d) the British Library and (e) the British Museum (i) inside and (ii) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage.

Photo of Michael Ellis Michael Ellis The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

The situation at each named organisation, at 16 January 2019, is set out in the table below.

Organisation

Number of staff paid below the London Living Wage inside Greater London

Number of staff paid below the London Living Wage outside Greater London

Number of staff paid below the Real Living Wage inside Greater London

Number of staff paid below the Real Living Wage outside Greater London

Arts Council England

0

14

0

0

Big Lottery Fund

0

75

0

29 [1]

British Film Institute

0

0

0

0

British Library

0

0

0

0

British Museum

164 [2]

0

0

0

[1] The Big Lottery Fund is an accredited Living Wage employer. The new rates are announced in November each year with a six month window for organisations to implement the changes. When Big Lottery Fund’s annual pay award is implemented, any required increases are backdated to 1 April so all employees are in line with the real living wage from the previous November. This approach has been agreed with the Living Wage Foundation

[2] There are 164 individuals receiving under £10.55 per hour - but no less than £10.20 per hour (the London Living Wage at 1 April 2018) - at the British Museum following the increase to the London Living Wage in November 2018. The next scheduled pay review at the British Museum is 1st April 2019.

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