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Pay: Young People

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Question for Treasury

UIN 2542, tabled on 30 July 2024

Question

Mr Richard Holden
Conservative
Basildon and Billericay
Commons

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 1812 on Pay: Young People, if she will make these calculations.

Answer

Tulip Siddiq
Labour
Hampstead and Highgate
Commons

Answered on

3 September 2024

I refer the Rt Hon. member to the publicly-available data sources listed in response to his previous question, from which further calculations can be made.

The statistics requested can be calculated for a typical worker on the minimum wage using the following data sources: average hours from ONS dataset HOUR01; inflation from ONS CPI series D7BT; historic Income Tax liabilities from HMRC, “Income Tax Personal Allowances and Reliefs”; historic National Insurance liabilities from HMRC, “Main Features of National Insurance Contributions”. Links can be found on the GOV.UK Website here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/actualweeklyhoursworkedseasonallyadjustedhour01sa

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/d7bt/mm23

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rates-and-allowances-income-tax/income-tax-rates-and-allowances-current-and-past

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-features-of-national-insurance-contributions

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