Minimum Wage

(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to round 19 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme, published in June 2023, how many and what proportion of the named employers have now paid arrears to people who were paid less than the minimum wage.


Answered by
Kevin Hollinrake Portrait
Kevin Hollinrake
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 11th September 2023

The Government only names once HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has finished its investigations and once employers have repaid arrears to workers and paid the penalty to government.

Where there has been an underpayment, HMRC will instruct the employer to pay workers the arrears owed, and a penalty of up to 200% of arrears. In 2021/22, HMRC concluded over 2,800 minimum wage investigations and returned more than £16.3m in arrears to over 120,000 workers. HMRC issued 696 fines totalling £13.2m to businesses who had failed to pay the minimum wage.

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