Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many employers found to be in breach of minimum wage regulations were (a) named publicly and (b) not named publicly due to mitigating circumstances since the commencement of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme.

To date we have named around 2,700 employers since the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme began.

Employers can make representations for not being named under this scheme, however, in practice we accept very few representations, as all employers have a duty to pay their staff correctly. We do not hold data on employers not named publicly due to exceptional circumstances.