Mel Stride
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Ministerial Corrections The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mel Stride)
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mel Stride) 
        
    
        
    
        The Conservative party introduced the national living wage. We should be enormously proud of that fact.  It goes up by 4.9% in April, so those in full-time employment will take home £2,750 more than they did in 2010.
[Official Report, 16 January 2019, Vol. 652, c. 398WH.]
Letter of correction from Mel Stride:
An error has been identified in my response to this debate.
The correct wording should have been:
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            Mel Stride 
        
    
        
    
        The Conservative party introduced the national living wage. We should be enormously proud of that fact. It goes up by 4.9% in April, so those in full-time employment will take home £2,750 more than they did in 2016.