Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 121700
Minimum Wage: Blackley and Middleton South
Tabled: 18 March 2026
Answered: 25 March 2026
Question
Graham Stringer
Labour — Blackley and Middleton South
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of young workers in Blackley and Middleton South who will be effected by (a) the delay in aligning the Minimum Wage with other workers and (b) the total estimate
Answer
Kate DeardenData on the effects of the National Minimum Wage at constituent level is not held. However, in the North West an estimated 30,000 on the 18–20 rate are expected to benefit from the 8.5% increase of the 18-20-year-old National Minimum Wage on 1 April.The g...
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