Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Pinto-Duschinsky and Justin Madders

Thursday 5th September 2024 Commons Chamber

[David Pinto-Duschinsky (Hendon) (Lab)]

T3. Many of my constituents in Hendon rely on the national minimum wage, but as we know from research, employers got away with failing to pay that wage to more than one in five workers who were due it under the last Government. Can the Secretary of State tell the House what steps his Department is taking to reverse that shameful legacy of weak enforcement?

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Justin Madders)]

The introduction of the minimum wage was one of the proudest achievements of the last Labour Government, but for too long the UK’s labour market enforcement system has been fragmented and ineffective. That is bad for workers and bad for the majority of businesses that want do to the right thing and comply with the law. That is why we will create a fair work agency to bring together employment rights enforcement, including of the minimum wage.