Department for Transport: Living Wage
(asked on 13th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2015 to Question 2952, if he will make it his policy to secure accredited Living Wage Employer status for his Department from the Living Wage Foundation.
This question was answered on 21st July 2015
The Chancellor has announced a new National Living Wage which will be compulsory as of next April and is expected to reach £9 an hour by 2020. Tackling low pay is part of the Government's plan to move to a higher wage, lower tax and lower welfare society. The Department for Transport pays the London Living Wage to its London employees and the UK Living Wage elsewhere.