Written questions

Pay: Tees Valley

2026-06-02 · Department for Business and Trade · 6702 · Official question

Luke Myer

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people receive the Minimum Wage or the National Living Wage in the Tees Valley region; what estimate the Department has made of the additional wage income received by workers in the Tees Valle

Answer

Estimates by local authority and parliamentary constituency are not always available due to data reliability constraints.Around 140,000 workers in the North East were expected to benefit from a direct pay rise following National Minimum Wage (NMW) and Nat...