Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of arrears identified by national minimum wage investigations in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17 have been subsequently repaid to workers to whom they are owed.

I refer the honourable member back to the answer provided by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Margot James, on 31 October 2016; and to the answer provided by the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke, on 22 September 2015.