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This page contains the Low Pay Commission's advice to the Government on minimum wage policy beyond 2024.
The Low Pay Commission Secretariat's business plan for the 2024/25 financial year.
Government is naming and shaming businesses which failed to pay the minimum wage to 12,000 of the lowest paid workers.
Provides the government's responses to the Low Pay Commission main recommendations on national minimum wage rates.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Low Pay Commission is an independent body that advises the government about the National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage.
The Low Pay Commission's annual report for 2022 sets out in full the evidence used to inform its recommendations on National Minimum Wage rates.
Minimum wage rates from April 2023 have now been announced.
The LPC's 2023 report on compliance and enforcement presents data on underpayment and explores the persistence of underpayment for individual workers.
Announcement of the 2021 National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates.
An independent research report from researchers at Sheffield Hallam University, reviewing the experiences of those paid the Apprentice Rate of the minimum wage.
This page collects the research projects commissioned by the LPC to inform its 2023 recommendations.
Government accepts NMW recommendations
This review covers the period up to April 2020, when the National Living Wage reached the Government’s initial target of 60 per cent of median earnings.
LPC expenditure from April 2023 to March 2024
This report contains the LPC's analysis of the expected effects of the 1 April 2018 minimum wage increases.
Millions of UK workers will receive a pay rise as the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rise comes into effect.
This report contains the LPC's response to the Government's request to make recommendations on 'one-sided flexibility', as identified in the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices.
The Chancellor today announced his intention to lower the age threshold for the National Living Wage to 21, accepting advice from the Low Pay Commission.
Research commissioned to inform the Low Pay Commission's work and recommendations in 2019.
This page contains the research reports commissioned by the Low Pay Commission to inform our 2020 Report.
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