Social Services: Minimum Wage

(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2017 to Question 105010, on social services: minimum wage, whether the remaining cases that will be considered in future rounds of his Department's naming scheme include the employer with identified arrears of over £1 million, referred to in the letter of 6 April 2017 from Jon Thompson, Chief Executive, HM Revenue and Customs, to the right hon. Member for North Norfolk.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 26th October 2017

The case for the employer with identified arrears of over £1 million is among the 69 cases that will not be considered for naming. The case was opened by HMRC before the revised scheme came into effect on 1 October 2013 and did not meet the set criteria for naming under the previous scheme. Those criteria were:

(1) Employer knowingly or deliberately failed to comply with their NMW obligations

(2) Employer previously received advice from HMRC about steps they need to take to ensure future compliance with national minimum wage and has not taken these steps

(3) Employer failed to take adequate steps to keep and preserve NMW records

(4) Employer delayed or obstructed a NMW compliance officer in the performance of their duties

(5) Employer refused or neglected to answer questions put to them by a NMW compliance officer

(6) Employer refused or neglected to provide information to produce documents to a NMW compliance officer

(7) Employer neglected to pay arrears of NMW to workers following HMRC intervention, which has resulted in HMRC having to undertake action against the employer to ensure payment of arrears

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