questionText: 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.
answerText: 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 Nat...
heading: Pay: Tees Valley