§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many people in the Greater London area have received the recent increase in the national minimum wage. [82369]
§ Alan JohnsonUsing the data on low pay collected by the Office for National Statistics in spring 2002, the DTI estimates that around 40,000 people in the London area stood to benefit from the October 2002 increase in the national minimum wage.