# Statbook

> A canonical, versioned, machine-readable registry of UK statutory
> figures — each value corroborated against two official sources
> (legislation.gov.uk and gov.uk), cited to its governing instrument,
> re-verified daily, and served with verifiable receipts. Not advice:
> it answers only "what is/was statutory figure X, as of date D".

Dataset release 1.0.1, compiled 2026-07-09T13:12:31Z.
Machine access: JSON API under /v1/ (see /docs/ and /openapi.json);
current values are free and unauthenticated. Every response carries a
receipt block verifiable against the signed release manifest.

## Figures

- [Maximum guarantee payment per day (workless day)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.guarantee_pay.daily_rate/): £41.00 GBP/day — The most an employer must pay for one workless day of statutory guarantee pay during lay-off or short-time working.
- [Statutory guarantee pay: maximum days in any 3 months](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.guarantee_pay.max_days_per_quarter/): 5 days — The maximum number of days statutory guarantee pay is payable in any three-month period.
- [Insolvency payments: weekly limit on a week's pay (National Insurance Fund)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.insolvency.weekly_debt_limit/): £751.00 GBP/week — The weekly cap on a week's pay when the National Insurance Fund pays employees of an insolvent employer.
- [Accommodation offset (living accommodation)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.nmw.accommodation_offset/): £11.10 GBP/day — The daily amount of living accommodation an employer may count towards National Minimum Wage pay.
- [Apprentice rate (under 19, or 19+ in first year)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.nmw.apprentice/): £8.00 GBP/hour — The National Minimum Wage hourly rate for apprentices under 19, or 19 and over in the first year of their apprenticeship.
- [Minimum wage, 16 to 17 (under-18 rate)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.nmw.band_16_17/): £8.00 GBP/hour — The National Minimum Wage hourly rate for workers aged 16 to 17 (the under-18 rate).
- [Minimum wage, 18 to 20](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.nmw.band_18_20/): £10.85 GBP/hour — The National Minimum Wage hourly rate for workers aged 18 to 20.
- [NMW: 21-24 / 21-22 age band (abolished 2024)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.nmw.band_21_22/): historic — The former National Minimum Wage age band for 21 to 24, later 21 to 22, year olds — abolished when the National Living Wage was extended to age 21 in April 2024.
- [National Living Wage (21 and over)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.nmw.nlw_21_over/): £12.71 GBP/hour — The National Living Wage hourly rate for workers aged 21 and over.
- [Minimum notice to be given by an employee](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.notice.employee_minimum/): 1 weeks — The statutory minimum notice, in weeks, an employee must give after one month's continuous employment.
- [Minimum notice to be given by an employer](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.notice.employer_minimum/): band: 1 month to 2 years' service, notice_weeks: 1; band: 2 to 12 years' service, notice_weeks: 1 per complete year; band: 12+ years' service, notice_weeks: 12 weeks — The statutory minimum notice, in weeks, an employer must give, banded by the employee's length of continuous employment.
- [Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay weekly rate](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.pbp.weekly_rate/): £194.32 GBP/week — The standard weekly rate of Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay.
- [Maximum statutory redundancy payment (30 weeks x capped week's pay)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.redundancy.max_payment/): £22,530.00 GBP — The maximum statutory redundancy payment — 20 × 1.5 × the capped week's pay, the canonical form of the statutory derivation.
- [Redundancy pay: cap on years of service](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.redundancy.service_cap_years/): 20 years — The maximum number of years of service that count towards a statutory redundancy payment.
- [Maximum amount of a week's pay (redundancy / basic award)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.redundancy.weekly_pay_cap/): £751.00 GBP/week — The cap on a week's pay used to calculate statutory redundancy payments and the unfair-dismissal basic award.
- [Statutory Maternity Pay: first 6 weeks earnings-related rate](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.smp.first_six_weeks_rate/): 90% percent_of_AWE — The earnings-related rate of Statutory Maternity Pay for the first six weeks, as a percentage of average weekly earnings.
- [Statutory Maternity Pay standard weekly rate (weeks 7+)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.smp.weekly_rate/): £194.32 GBP/week — The standard weekly rate of Statutory Maternity Pay from week seven onwards.
- [Statutory Paternity / Shared Parental / Adoption Pay weekly rate](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.spp_shpp_sap.weekly_rate/): £194.32 GBP/week — The standard weekly rate of Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Shared Parental Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay.
- [Statutory Sick Pay weekly rate](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.ssp.weekly_rate/): £123.25 GBP/week — The weekly rate of Statutory Sick Pay.
- [Lower Earnings Limit for NI / statutory payment qualification](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.statutory_payments.lower_earnings_limit/): £129.00 GBP/week — The weekly Lower Earnings Limit for National Insurance — the earnings threshold for qualifying for statutory payments.
- [Tips: maximum tribunal compensation for failure re written policy/records](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.tips.no_policy_award/): £5,366.00 GBP — The maximum employment tribunal compensation where an employer fails to have a written tips policy or keep tipping records.
- [Tips: maximum tribunal compensation for unfair allocation](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.tips.unfair_allocation_award/): £5,366.00 GBP — The maximum employment tribunal compensation for unfair allocation of tips, gratuities and service charges.
- [Acas Code uplift/reduction: maximum tribunal adjustment](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.tribunal.acas_uplift_max_pct/): 25% percent — The maximum percentage adjustment a tribunal may make to an award for unreasonable failure to comply with the Acas Code of Practice.
- [Employment tribunal breach-of-contract claim: maximum award](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.tribunal.breach_of_contract_cap/): £25,000.00 GBP — The maximum award an employment tribunal may make on a breach-of-contract claim.
- [Vento bands: injury-to-feelings awards](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.tribunal.vento_bands/): band: lower, from: 1300, to: 12600, desc: less serious cases; band: middle, from: 12600, to: 37700, desc: cases not meriting the upper band; band: upper, from: 37700, to: 62900, desc: most serious; exceptional cases may exceed £62,900 GBP — The Vento bands used by employment tribunals to assess injury-to-feelings awards in discrimination cases.
- [Unfair dismissal: additional award (reinstatement order not complied with)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.unfair_dismissal.additional_award_range/): band: additional_award, min_weeks: 26, max_weeks: 52 weeks_pay — The range, in weeks' pay, of the additional award where an employer does not comply with a reinstatement or re-engagement order.
- [Limit on compensatory award for unfair dismissal](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.unfair_dismissal.compensatory_cap/): £123,543.00 GBP — The statutory limit on the compensatory award for unfair dismissal.
- [Minimum basic award for certain automatically-unfair dismissals (H&S, union, etc.)](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.unfair_dismissal.min_basic_award/): £9,157.00 GBP — The minimum basic award where the dismissal is for specified automatically-unfair reasons, such as health-and-safety or trade-union grounds.
- [Trade union: minimum basic award for dismissal on union grounds](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.union.dismissal_min_basic_award/): £9,157.00 GBP — The minimum basic award where an employee is dismissed on trade-union membership or activity grounds.
- [Trade union: minimum award for unlawful exclusion/expulsion](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.union.exclusion_expulsion_award/): £13,986.00 GBP — The minimum award where a tribunal has declared someone was unlawfully excluded or expelled from a trade union and compensation falls to be assessed.
- [Trade union: fixed award for unlawful inducement](https://statbook.co.uk/figures/employment.union.unlawful_inducement_award/): £5,993.00 GBP — The fixed award for an unlawful inducement relating to trade-union membership, activities or collective bargaining.

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