Minimum Wage

(asked on 3rd February 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Paul Blomfield Portrait
Paul Blomfield
(Labour - Sheffield Central)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time of cases in employment tribunals related to non-payment of the National Minimum Wage was in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Shailesh Vara Portrait
Shailesh Vara
This question was answered on 11th February 2016

The average clearance time of employment tribunal claims for non-payment of the National Minimum Wage1 in each of the last five years is as shown in Table 1 below:

Financial Year

Average time in weeks

2010-11

43

2011-12

41

2012-13

43

2013-14

32

2014-15

74

source: ET Database February 2016

1 "Suffer a detriment and/or dismissal related to failure to pay the minimum wage or allow access to records"

In 2014-15 we reviewed outstanding cases and removed a backlog of very old cases from the case management system. The overall trend in average clearance time for single cases is improving and this can be seen in the Published Statistics at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.

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