Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many companies in each region have been (a) named and shamed and (b) prosecuted for non-payment of the minimum wage in each of last three years for which figures are available.

In the last 12 months we have named 592 employers for non-payment of the National Minimum Wage. The name and location of these employers is recorded within press notices, which can be found on www.gov.uk:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-number-of-employers-named-and-shamed-for-underpaying

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-2-million-back-pay-identified-for-13000-of-the-uks-lowest-paid-workers

Geographic information of employers prosecuted for non-compliance with the National Minimum Wage is published in the Government’s 2017 evidence to the Low Pay Commission on compliance and enforcement: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-minimum-wage-government-evidence-to-the-low-pay-commission-on-compliance-and-enforcement-2017.