Economic crime
Dame Margaret Hodge and Kevin Hollinrake have secured a Backbench Business Committee debate on economic crime, scheduled for Thursday 2 December in the Main Chamber.
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The National Minimum Wage: historical background (255 KB , PDF)
This note provides an overview of the historical background to the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. It discusses the establishment of Trade Boards, which subsequently became Wages Councils; the abolition of Wages Councils; proposals for a national minimum wage in the run up to the 1992 and 1997 General Elections; and the enactment of the 1998 Act.
Further background information can be found in Library Research Papers 99/18, dated 19 February 1999, on the National Minimum Wage, and 97/133 dated 4 December 1997, on the National Minimum Wage Bill 1997/98.
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The National Minimum Wage: historical background (255 KB , PDF)
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