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2015-16
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Living Wage Week And Reductions To Tax Credits
Caroline Lucas
2015-10-28
That this House joins all those supporting Living Wage Week from 1 to 7 November 2015; notes the hourly national living wage rate, set by the Living Wage Foundation, according to the cost of living, is currently £7.85 with a London rate of £9.15; further notes the national minimum wage is currently just £6.70, and the Chancellor's proposal to increase this rate to £7.20 from April 2016 is significantly less than the living wage recommended by experts, and excludes two million working people aged under 25; welcomes the acknowledgement from the Chancellor that the national minimum wage should be increased but believes his national living wage branding is deliberately misleading when his proposed modest increase does not match that set by the Living Wage Foundation; notes the proposed increase in the national minimum wage is the biggest element of the package that Ministers say will help compensate the families hit by the Chancellor's callous tax credit cut proposals; yet notes that analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests the proposed national minimum wage increase would on average only compensate for 26 per cent of the losses due to cuts to benefits and tax credits; and therefore calls on the Chancellor to abandon the proposal to cut tax credits, to increase the national minimum wage to the level set by the Living Wage Foundation and to stop using living wage terminology and branding for any national minimum wage level set below the Living Wage Foundation's expert benchmark.
Benefits policy
Incomes and poverty
Pay
Working age benefits
Caroline Lucas
2015-10-28
Proposed
Brighton, Pavilion
Green
John Pugh
2015-10-28
Seconded
Southport
Liberal Democrat
Liz Saville Roberts
2015-10-28
Seconded
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Plaid Cymru
Jonathan Edwards
2015-10-28
Seconded
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
Plaid Cymru
Hywel Williams
2015-10-28
Seconded
Arfon
Plaid Cymru
Mark Durkan
2015-10-28
Seconded
Foyle
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Margaret Ritchie
2015-10-28
Signed
South Down
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Martyn Day
2015-10-29
Signed
Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Scottish National Party
Michael Weir
2015-10-29
Signed
Angus
Scottish National Party
Paul Monaghan
2015-10-29
Signed
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Scottish National Party
Jim Shannon
2015-10-29
Signed
Strangford
DUP
Alan Meale
2015-10-29
Signed
Mansfield
Labour
Stuart McDonald
2015-11-02
Signed
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Scottish National Party
Mhairi Black
2015-11-02
Signed
Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Scottish National Party
Eilidh Whiteford
2015-11-02
Signed
Banff and Buchan
Scottish National Party
Marion Fellows
2015-11-03
Signed
Motherwell and Wishaw
Scottish National Party
Ian Blackford
2015-11-03
Signed
Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Scottish National Party
Angela Crawley
2015-11-03
Signed
Lanark and Hamilton East
Scottish National Party
Chris Law
2015-11-03
Signed
Dundee West
Scottish National Party
Lisa Cameron
2015-11-03
Signed
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Scottish National Party
Kirsten Oswald
2015-11-03
Signed
East Renfrewshire
Scottish National Party
Martin Docherty
2015-11-03
Signed
West Dunbartonshire
Scottish National Party
David Anderson
2015-11-04
Signed
Blaydon
Labour
Roger Godsiff
2015-11-04
Signed
Birmingham, Hall Green
Labour
Brendan O'Hara
2015-11-04
Signed
Argyll and Bute
Scottish National Party
Ronnie Campbell
2015-11-04
Signed
Blyth Valley
Labour
Philippa Whitford
2015-11-04
Signed
Central Ayrshire
Scottish National Party
Jim Cunningham
2015-11-05
Signed
Coventry South
Labour
Mary Glindon
2015-11-05
Signed
North Tyneside
Labour
Deidre Brock
2015-11-05
Signed
Edinburgh North and Leith
Scottish National Party
Joanna Cherry
2015-11-06
Signed
Edinburgh South West
Scottish National Party
Jo Stevens
2015-11-06
Signed
Cardiff Central
Labour
Patrick Grady
2015-11-06
Signed
Glasgow North
Scottish National Party
Chris Stephens
2015-11-06
Signed
Glasgow South West
Scottish National Party
Tasmina Sheikh
2015-11-09
Signed
Ochil and South Perthshire
Scottish National Party
Neil Gray
2015-11-10
Signed
Airdrie and Shotts
Scottish National Party
Carol Monaghan
2015-11-10
Signed
Glasgow North West
Scottish National Party
Marie Rimmer
2015-11-16
Signed
St Helens South and Whiston
Labour
Owen Thompson
2015-11-16
Signed
Midlothian
Scottish National Party
Maria Caulfield
2015-11-17
Signed
Lewes
Conservative
Yasmin Qureshi
2015-11-20
Signed
Bolton South East
Labour
Alan Brown
2015-11-25
Signed
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Scottish National Party
Richard Arkless
2015-11-25
Signed
Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish National Party
Imran Hussain
2015-11-26
Signed
Bradford East
Labour
Corri Wilson
2015-11-26
Signed
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Scottish National Party