Minimum Wage: Non-payment

(asked on 25th March 2019) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of businesses that have paid workers below the national minimum wage.


Answered by
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Kelly Tolhurst
This question was answered on 1st April 2019

The Government is committed to cracking down on employers who fail to pay the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage when it is due. In the past three years, we have doubled HMRC’s budget to enforce the minimum wage from £13.2 million in 2015/16 to a record £26.3 million in 2018/19.

As a result, the Government achieved record enforcement results in 2017/18. We closed 1,046 cases for breaches of the minimum wage legislation, identifying £15.6 million of minimum wage arrears owed to over 200,000 workers.

The Government’s latest evidence on compliance and enforcement regarding the minimum wage can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-living-wage-and-national-minimum-wage-government-evidence-on-compliance-and-enforcement-2018.

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