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Shipping: Minimum Wage

Commons · Question 119233 · Tabled 10 Mar 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 16 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Grahame Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will provide a response to the recommendation in the National Minimum Wage: Low Pay Commission Report 2022 CP 758 that seafarers be exempted from the Accommodation Offset.

Answer

Answered by Kate Dearden, 16 Mar 2026

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) continues to consider the recommendations from the Low Pay Commission (LPC)'s report on the accommodation offset, including the recommendation about its application to seafarers. As part of this work we are enga...