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A report by the Low Pay Commission on the history of the UK minimum wage and its effects.
We are gathering evidence towards our recommendations on minimum wage rates for 2027.
The Low Pay Commission's Business Plan for the 2026/27 financial year.
The 139 named companies failed to pay £6.7 million to over 95,000 workers.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The Low Pay Commission's annual report sets out in full the evidence and analysis which informed recommendations for minimum wage rates from April 2026.
The 191 named companies failed to pay £2.1 million to over 34,000 workers.
National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates increased on 1 April 2020. This report reviews those increases and the LPC's new remit to 2024.
Read the Low Pay Commission's recommendations on the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates from April 2022.
Minimum wage rates increase on 1 April. This short report looks at the 2021 increases and the path ahead for the next year.
Millions of flexible workers will benefit from new rights and extra protections if they lose out on work, under proposed government reforms.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
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