Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of 7 February 2018, Official Report, Column 1504, on the Taylor Review, what the timetable is for the Low Pay Commission to consider the impact of a higher minimum wage.

The Government will ask the Low Pay Commission to produce advice in October 2018 on the impacts of the proposal to offer a premium over and above the National Minimum Wage to workers on contracts with variable hours. This commitment is made in the Government’s response to the Taylor Review, and a formal commission will be issued to the Low Pay Commission shortly.