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National Minimum Wage Uprating

EDM number 1482 in 2008-09, proposed by John McDonnell on 13/05/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Pay.

That this House welcomes the 10th anniversary of the National Minimum Wage introduced by this Labour Government in 1999; further welcomes recent Government measures to extend the minimum wage to apprentices and to exclude tips from minimum wage calculations; notes that the Low Pay Commission states that the minimum wage has had no discernible adverse impact, in contrast to the dire warnings of the Conservative Party at the time of its introduction; is therefore disappointed that this year's uprating of the minimum wage is the lowest on record, barely over one per cent. and between 4p and 7p for different age groups; and calls on the Government to end the age discrimination in the minimum wage and to legislate so that the minimum wage should always increase above both inflation and average earnings so as to narrow the inequality gap.

This motion has been signed by a total of 35 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
John McDonnell13/05/2009Hayes and HarlingtonLabourProposed
Kelvin Hopkins13/05/2009Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones13/05/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Austin Mitchell13/05/2009Great GrimsbyLabourSeconded
Diane Abbott13/05/2009Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSeconded
David Drew13/05/2009StroudLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn13/05/2009Islington NorthLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle14/05/2009ChorleyLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore14/05/2009HendonLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin14/05/2009Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
David Taylor14/05/2009North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Brian Iddon18/05/2009Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Ann Cryer18/05/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff18/05/2009Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
Robert Wareing18/05/2009Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Mark Durkan19/05/2009FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Mike Hancock19/05/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis20/05/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Linda Riordan20/05/2009HalifaxLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard21/05/2009WalthamstowLabourSigned
Marsha Singh01/06/2009Bradford WestLabourSigned
Eric Illsley01/06/2009Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady01/06/2009South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Bill Etherington01/06/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David Borrow01/06/2009South RibbleLabourSigned
Katy Clark01/06/2009North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Andrew MacKinlay02/06/2009ThurrockLabourSigned
Janet Dean02/06/2009BurtonLabourSigned
David Crausby04/06/2009Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell10/06/2009Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Alan Simpson11/06/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Hamilton16/06/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Michael Connarty01/07/2009Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
Ian GibsonUnknownWithdrawn
Gordon PrenticeUnknownWithdrawn

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