Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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I cannot reiterate this strongly enough. Given the short timeframe, the work we have asked the low pay commission to do is exclusively on the minimum wage for the moment. However, it is clear to me, and we can all agree, that low pay, for example, is a large issue. There is no doubt that there is a gender element to it, and the low pay commission will be looking at issues to do with that over the coming period. We all know it is an issue for migrant workers as well. There will be opportunities for us to engage with the commission and I will be making it clear to it shortly what I will be asking it to do in terms of issues to do with low pay in general and the related matters.

In many ways the zero hour contracts review will run parallel with the initial work the low pay commission has been asked to do this year. There may well be ongoing work the commission could do in regard to data and the monitoring-----