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The weekly rates that will apply from April 2026 to statutory maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption, neonatal care pay and parental bereavement pay, as well as statutory sick pay (SSP) are as follows:

Freezing tax thresholds, changing the rules on pension salary sacrifice, and increases to the National Minimum Wage headline the 2025 Budget, as it pertains to HR.

Various research bodies have published pay data for the three months to the end of October 2025.

The National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage rates will increase from 1st April 2026 as follows:

A review will look at the current approach to employment rights for unpaid carers, particularly leave entitlements, as well as examine the potential benefits of introducing paid carer’s leave.