Pay: Tees Valley
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people receive the Minimum Wage or the National Living Wage in the Tees Valley region; what estimate the Department has made of the additional wage income received by workers in the Tees Valley as a result of increases to those rates in 2025/26; and what estimate it has made for 2026/27.
Answered by Kate Dearden
Estimates by local authority and parliamentary constituency are not always available due to data reliability constraints.
Around 140,000 workers in the North East were expected to benefit from a direct pay rise following National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) increases in April 2025; and around 130,000 workers following the increases in April 2026. The 2026 NLW uplift is worth around £900 annually for a full-time worker, and over £1,500 for 18–20-year-olds on the NMW.
Further details can be found in the The National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2026.
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