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The Government has announced increases for all rates of the National Minimum Wage, including the National Living Wage, which will come into effect from next April.

The announcement comes less than 24 hours before the Chancellor is scheduled to deliver her Autumn Budget , which some publications have predicted could be 'one of the toughest in living memory'.

Rachel Reeves has accepted recommendations from the Low Pay Commission so that those on low incomes are "properly rewarded" for their work.

The new rates hike means that the a full-time worker will see an annual earnings increase of £1,500 from 2026.

The latest increases are part of a wider government ambition to phase out 18 to 20 wage bands and establishing a single adult rate.

The new rates which will come

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