In response to this growing Crisis of Low Pay, the Bill could have considered giving the Low Pay Commission a wider remit to consider an affordable wage, sector by sector, bringing the living wage into those parts of the economy where it will work.

As I said tothe hon. Member for Hexham (Guy Opperman), increasing the personal tax allowance does not in itself end the Crisis of Low Pay.

Is This Low Pay Crisis not one of the key drivers of the explosion in the use of food banks?

The report lays out more correctly the problem in the gains of productivity and their distribution, noting that the arrangements are such that economic growth alone will not necessarily solve Britain's Low Pay Crisis.

” That means again that economic growth alone will not solve Britain's Low Pay Crisis.

Worryingly, we know that there is a particular Crisis of Low Pay affecting black and minority ethnic communities.

It is all very well telling people to lift their horizons, but in fact the Crisis of Low Pay has intensified over the past four and a half years.

The Low Pay Crisis, which this debate will shed new light on, means that the gap between the wealthiest and the working poor in our society is getting larger.

How can we act to end the Low Pay Crisis?

The fourth way to solve the Low Pay Crisis is by making the right investments in skills to ensure that people do not remain stuck in low-paid jobs for ever.

The living wage and higher minimum wages are undoubtedly one part of the answer to the Low Pay Crisis in the UK, but expanding credit unions is another part of the solution too.