TheLow Pay Commission (LPC) is an independent body in the United Kingdom, established in 1997, that advises the government on theNational Minimum Wage. It is an advisorynon-departmental public body of theDepartment for Business and Trade (DBT).

The LPC was established in July 1997 on a non-statutory basis before being confirmed in legislation by theNational Minimum Wage Act 1998.

Each year, the LPC advises the government on what rates the different minimum wages in the UK should be, announcing its recommendation six months before it would come into force. It is then up to the government to accept or reject the LPC's recommendations. The government has usually accepted the wage levels advocated by the LPC.^[1]

The LPC consists of nine Low Pay Commissioners who are selected by theDBT. The Commissioners are a mixture of employers,trade unionists andacademics.^[2]

• 2009 to 2017 –Sir David Norgrove^[3]
• 2017 to 2024 (2017 to 2019 as interim chair) – Bryan Sanderson^[4][5]
• 2024 to present –Baroness Philippa Stroud^[6]

In March 2014 theResolution Foundation issued the reportMore Than A Minimum which proposed that the LPC's role should be expanded to include publishing the following:

• An indication of its intentions for the minimum wage one year ahead.
• Analysis to show which sectors of the economy could afford to pay more than the minimum wage to encourage wage rises.
• Advice for government on low pay policy in the same way that theOffice of Budget Responsibility influencesfiscal policy.^[7]

• Minimum wage law

• Official website
• Catalogue of evidence submitted to the LPC, 1997–1998, held at theModern Records Centre, University of Warwick

• 1997 establishments in the United Kingdom
• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department for Business and Trade
• Government agencies established in 1997
• Minimum wage law
• Non-departmental public bodies of the United Kingdom government
• Organisations based in the City of London

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