Kelly Tolhurst corrected a written answer on Pay

20 June 2019 · Commons written answer · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Stephanie Peacock (Labour, Barnsley East) asked written question 261537 on 7 June 2019. Kelly Tolhurst answered on 13 June 2019 for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and Kelly Tolhurst corrected the answer on 20 June 2019. The corrected text adds the figures 1,762,000, 12.0, 172,000, 341,000, 36,000, 7.2, which the original did not give. Altogether 33 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pusuant to the Answers of 5 June 2019 to Questions 257798 and 257799, and in the format of the Answer of 11 April 2019 to Question 241458, what proportion of jobs in (a) the UK, (b) Yorkshire, (c) South Yorkshire and (c) Barnsley are paid the (i) National Living Wage and (ii) National Minimum Wage.

Original and corrected answer

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Through the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW), the Government ensures that the lowest paid in our society are fairly rewarded for their work. April 2019’s increase to the NLW will see nearly 1.8 million workers in the UK receive a 4.9% pay rise. A full-time worker on the NLW will now be more than £2,750 better off over the year compared to when it was first announced in 2015. The table below provides estimates for the number and proportion of jobs in the UK and Yorkshire and the Humber on the NLW and NMW in 2019. The most recent available data for Barnsley, and South Yorkshire, shows that there were an estimated 5,500 workers and 47,200 workers respectively who were on the NLW or NMW. \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	Through the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW), the Government ensures that the lowest paid in our society are fairly rewarded for their work. April 2019’s increase to the NLW will see nearly 1.8 million workers in the UK receive a 4.9% pay rise. A full-time worker on the NLW will now be more than £2,750 better off over the year compared to when it was first announced in 2015. The table below provides estimates for the number and proportion of jobs in the UK and Yorkshire and the Humber on the NLW and NMW in 2019. The most recent available data for Barnsley, and South Yorkshire, shows that there were an estimated 5,500 workers and 47,200 workers respectively who were on the NLW or NMW. National Living Wage \| National Minimum Wage Number of jobs \| % of jobs \| Number of jobs \| % of jobs UK \| 1,762,000 \| 7.2% \| 341,000 \| 9.8% Yorkshire and the Humber \| 172,000 \| 8.8% \| 36,000 \| 12.0%

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Corrected

Through the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW), the Government ensures that the lowest paid in our society are fairly rewarded for their work. April 2019’s increase to the NLW will see nearly 1.8 million workers in the UK receive a 4.9% pay rise. A full-time worker on the NLW will now be more than £2,750 better off over the year compared to when it was first announced in 2015.
The table below provides estimates for the number and proportion of jobs in the UK and Yorkshire and the Humber on the NLW and NMW in 2019. The most recent available data for Barnsley, and South Yorkshire, shows that there were an estimated 5,500 workers and 47,200 workers respectively who were on the NLW or NMW.
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Date read	15 October 2026
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