Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 119233

Shipping: Minimum Wage

Tabled: 10 March 2026

Answered: 16 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Grahame Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will provide a response to the recommendation in the National Minimum Wage: Low Pay Commission Report 2022 CP 758 that seafarers be exempted from the Accommodation Offset.

Answer

Kate Dearden

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) continues to consider the recommendations from the Low Pay Commission (LPC)'s report on the accommodation offset, including the recommendation about its application to seafarers. As part of this work we are enga...

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