Government Departments: Living Wage

(asked on 30th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy that no Department be permitted to (a) employ staff at wages below the living wage and (b) sign a contract with contractors who pay their staff less than the living wage.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 5th November 2015

We are the first Government ever to deliver a National Living Wage. Every employer in the country will pay the National Living Wage, including all Government contractors, from April 2016.

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