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Low Pay

Volume 296: debated on Thursday 26 June 1997

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To ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will make a statement on the setting up of the commission on low pay. [4089]

We are pressing ahead with the setting up of the Low Pay Commission. Professor George Bain was appointed on 2 June to chair the Commission and advertisements seeking suitable applicants for the Commissioners are appearing in the press this week. The Commission is expected to start work in the summer.