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Low Pay Commission

Low Pay Commission Call for Research on the impact of reducing the age of entitlement to the National Living Wage on young people

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£50k
Awarded10 Feb 2025
Published9 Jan 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£50ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This sits in the lower-middle of the Research & Development band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This Invitation to Tender is for researchers to identify and assess the impact of reducing the age of entitlement to the National Living Wage on young people.

We are interested in research that assesses the impact of the reduction in the age of entitlement to the NLW to 23 in April 2021 and to 21 in April 2024.

The research should examine the impact of the reduction in age of entitlement and of increases in the minimum wage on hourly and weekly wages, employment, hours worked and education participation.

Findings will provide insights on the ambition and help inform the pace of recommendations to reduce the age of entitlement to age 18.

The full requirement is set out in Schedule 07 of this Invitation to Tender (LPC2024/01).

Further information can be found on our website https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-pay-commission-call-for-research-2025 You must submit your tender to tim.butcher@lowpay.gov.uk.

It must arrive no later than 14:00 on 10 February 2025.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The research should examine the impact

The research should examine the impact of the reduction in age of entitlement and of increases in the minimum wage on hourly and weekly wages, employment, hours worked and education participation.

02

Findings will provide insights on the ambition

Findings will provide insights on the ambition and help inform the pace of recommendations to reduce the age of entitlement to age 18.

03

You must submit your tender to tim.butcher@lowpay.gov.uk

You must submit your tender to tim.butcher@lowpay.gov.uk.

04

It must arrive no later than 14:00

It must arrive no later than 14:00 on 10 February 2025.

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Source & provenance
OCID
98735d07-0b98-46e5-83b2-81b497f330f9
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
LPC2024/01
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