High cost of living: Impact on households
This briefing covers how the high period of inflation in the UK from 2021 to 2024 continues to affect household incomes, spending, poverty, savings and debt.

An Opposition Day debate relating to employment rights, holiday pay and 48-hour weekly working limits has been scheduled for Monday 25 January 2021.
Opposition day debate: employment rights, holiday pay and 48-hour weekly working limits (422 KB , PDF)
An Opposition Day debate relating to employment rights, holiday pay and 48-hour weekly working limits has been scheduled for Monday 25 January 2021.
The title of the motion is “That this House believes that all existing employment rights and protections must be maintained, including the 48-hour working week, rest breaks at work and inclusion of overtime pay when calculating some holiday pay entitlements, and calls upon the Government to set out to Parliament by the end of January 2021 a timetable to introduce legislation to end “fire and re-hire” tactics.”
Opposition day debate: employment rights, holiday pay and 48-hour weekly working limits (422 KB , PDF)
This briefing covers how the high period of inflation in the UK from 2021 to 2024 continues to affect household incomes, spending, poverty, savings and debt.
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