The Living Wage and the Private Sector

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes the report, What Price a Living Wage? Understanding the impact of living wage on firm-level wage bills, produced by the IPPR and Resolution Foundation, which, it understands, analyses for the first time, the estimated wage bill that UK companies listed on the London Stock Exchange would face were they to adopt a living wage of £8.30 in London and £7.20 in Lothian and across the rest of the UK; considers that changes to the UK tax credit system mean that the real-terms value of the national minimum wage is now at 2004 levels; notes the substantial progress made across the public sector, but believes that, to effectively deliver the living wage through procurement contracts and through the private sector, there are huge challenges ahead, particularly with regard to the retail distribution, manufacturing and hospitality sectors in which, it understands, progress has been slow; reaffirms its commitment to the campaign for a living wage, and would welcome the promotion of the merits of a living wage to the business community.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Lab 19 SNP 7 Green 2

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S4M-02952 by reference.