National Minimum Wage Debate

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National Minimum Wage

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Wednesday 15th October 2014

(9 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Russell Brown Portrait Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway) (Lab)
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I served on the Committee that considered the National Minimum Wage Bill, and the only other person in the Chamber who did that is you, Mr Speaker. We spent many long hours through the night—

Chris Bryant Portrait Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab)
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He was wrong then!

Russell Brown Portrait Mr Brown
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I will refer to that later, but it is right that my hon. Friend the Member for Streatham (Mr Umunna) continues to push this issue, because some people out there believe that the national minimum wage would have happened in any case.

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