Government Departments: Living Wage
(asked on 17th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many directly employed government staff currently receive less than the Living Wage.
This question was answered on 1st December 2015
Every employer in the country will pay the National Living Wage, including all Government departments and their contractors.
The latest data available suggests that 867 current Civil Servants will benefit directly from the National Living Wage from April 2016 as announced by the Chancellor. We estimate that over 20,000 employees will benefit by the end of this parliament.