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The new rate will increase pay for typical minimum wage workers (26 hours) by nearly £300 per year rising to nearly £600 for full-time minimum wage workers. An increase of 4.2 per cent is, after the introduction of the National Living Wage in April, the largest increase in the main rate of the minimum wage since 2006.

DExEU is working closely with the Home Office and other Government departments to identify and develop options to shape our future immigration system, including considering the best way to control the number of people coming to the UK following our exit from the EU.

Mr Speaker, this package means that over the course of this Parliament, the government expects to more than double, in real terms, annual capital spending on housing.

And we won’t be doing this alone. Through this project we hope to raise nearly $500 million from the private sector, including companies with a high dependency on water, as well as from national governments and development banks, so that together we can plan and construct water infrastructure for communities within SADC member states.

The new tax relief, which starts in April 2017, was originally only intended to be available for temporary and touring exhibitions.