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The Low Pay Commission is an independent body that advises the UK government on the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage. It provides recommendations based on evidence to ensure fair pay and support for low-income workers.
Based on publicly published press releases (last 12 months)
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Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Minimum wage rates announced for April 2026....
Tuesday, 05 August 2025
The Low Pay Commission has updated its projections for the National Living Wage in 2026....
Friday, 28 March 2025
Press release accompanying the Low Pay Commission's 2025 Uprating Report...
Thursday, 19 December 2024
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) publishes a report into compliance and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage....
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Low Pay Commission recommendations accepted in full...
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Low Pay Commission publishes advice to Government on the future of the National Minimum Wage beyond 2024...
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Low Pay Commission recommendations take the minimum wage to its long term target in April 2024...
Wednesday, 13 September 2023
The Low Pay Commission publishes its 2023 Report looking at compliance and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage....
Tuesday, 04 April 2023
The Low Pay Commission is seeking proposals for research into the effects of the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage with a deadline of Tue...
Thursday, 30 March 2023
Low-paid workers across the country will receive a pay increase this weekend as all rates of the National Minimum Wage rise....
Thursday, 17 November 2022
Minimum wage rates from April 2023 have now been announced....
Sunday, 24 July 2022
Low Pay Commission report looks at labour market enforcement in Leicester’s textiles sector....
Thursday, 31 March 2022
Workers on the minimum wage will receive a higher percentage increase in pay than most other workers across the economy. ...
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Minimum wage rates from April 2022 have now been announced....
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
LPC underpayment report sets out how the pandemic has created new challenges for compliance...
Thursday, 01 April 2021
The age threshold for the National Living Wage changes from 25 to 23 as the rate increases on 1 April. ...
Thursday, 18 February 2021
The Low Pay Commission is tendering for research into the effects of the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage....
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Announcement of the 2021 National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates....
Thursday, 07 May 2020
The LPC’s non-compliance and enforcement report looks at why so many apprentices are underpaid and what can be done about it....
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates increased on 1 April....
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
The Government has confirmed its 2024 target for the National Living Wage to reach two-thirds of median earnings....
Thursday, 13 February 2020
The Low Pay Commission is tendering for research into the effects of the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage. The deadline is Monday 2 Marc...
Tuesday, 31 December 2019
The Low Pay Commission's 2019 recommendations complete the path originally set out in 2015....
Monday, 04 November 2019
The Low Pay Commission is publishing two reports with its advice to Government on the future of the UK minimum wage....
Monday, 30 September 2019
The Chancellor today announced his intention to lower the age threshold for the National Living Wage to 21, accepting advice from the Low Pay Commissi...
Thursday, 25 April 2019
A new report from the Low Pay Commission finds that the number of people paid less than the statutory minimum wage in the UK increased in 2018....
Sunday, 31 March 2019
On the 20th anniversary of the National Minimum Wage, a new report by the Low Pay Commission examines how the policy has transformed the UK labour mar...
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
The Low Pay Commission welcomes the Government's announcement that Professor Arindrajit Dube has been appointed to undertake a review of the internati...
Wednesday, 06 February 2019
LPC to gather evidence on the effects of the minimum wage in Neath and Swansea, Ayr and Kilmarnock, Derry, Hartlepool, Great Yarmouth, and Wigan and M...
Friday, 01 February 2019
Every year the Low Pay Commission commissions research projects to help evaluate the effects of the minimum wage rates we have recommended. Published ...
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