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Question reference: S6W-31239

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 November 2024
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 27 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses have been accredited as Living Wage employers in each year since 2016, broken down by local authority area.

The accreditation scheme is owned and managed by the Living Wage Foundation, with Poverty Alliance responsible for it's delivery in Scotland. Therefore Scottish Government is not the data owner or gatherer, below is the number of accredited employers since the 2015-16 financial year:

Financial Year	Accredited Employers Scotland
2015-16	309
2016-17	350
2017-18	424
2018-19	334
2019-20	414
2020-21	366
2021-22	724
2022-23	532
2023-24	677
Total	4,130

Please note the above accreditation numbers are "snapshots" in time. Employers may have subsequently ceased to trade, or closed their accreditation. The very latest data from Poverty Alliance states there are 3,772 employers currently accredited.

Included is a spreadsheet, providing historical accreditations which can be filtered by Local Authority since 2016. The latest current accreditation data can always be viewed on the Living Wage Scotland website: https://scottishlivingwage.org/employer-directory/

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