Fiscal claim
Introduce a living wage
Headline figure
Per-year impact
€700m
Recurring annual spend
Total over horizon
€700m
2025 onwards
Confidence
Stated in source
Public-sector & public-procurement living-wage uplift ≈ €700m/yr.
Attribution & links
- Origin
- Manifesto
- Owner
- The Labour Party
- Policy area
- Enterprise And Employment
- Underwrites commitment
- Introduce a living wage to tackle in-work poverty
- First stated
- 2024-11-17
- Last reviewed
- 2026-05-23
Verification
Cross-checked against the source document. Quote captured verbatim where the figure is directly stated; gaps and mismatches are noted honestly.
Verified against Labour Party GE2024 Manifesto - Building Better Together, p.9: "Labour will ensure apprentices are paid at least the living wage."
Evidence & sources
Every euro figure above ultimately traces back to the source document below.
Source
- Labour Party GE2024 ManifestoLabour Party·Retrieved 2026-05-23high
- Labour Party GE2024 Manifesto - Building Better Together, p.9 - verbatim figureThe Labour Party·Retrieved 2026-05-23high
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