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Minimum Wage: Edinburgh North and Leith

Asked by Tracy GilbertLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 27 March 2025UIN 39755

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of employees who will benefit from the increase in national minimum wage rates in Edinburgh North and Leith constituency.

Answered by Justin Madders

Approximately 200,000 employees in Scotland are expected to benefit from a direct pay rise due to the increases in the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage in April 2025, according to the Government’s Impact Assessment. Constituency-level estimates are not available due to greater data reliability issues arising from low survey response rates.

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