Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 58629

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Tabled: 10 June 2025
Answered: 18 June 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the number of workers who have been underpaid in the last 12 months.

Answer

Justin Madders
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) data suggests that 371,000 employee jobs were underpaid the National Minimum Wage (NMW) / National Living Wage (NLW) in April 2024. This represents approximately 1.3% of the total number of employee jobs: Low and h...
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