Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total (a) annual budget and (b) full time equivalent workforce allocated to HMRC's National Minimum Wage teams was in each year since 2015.

HMRC’s National Minimum Wage (NMW) compliance work is funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, who are responsible for NMW legislation and policy. The funding for HMRC’s work on NMW has increased from £13.2 million in 2015-16, to £26.4 million in 2021-22.

The following table provides a yearly breakdown of the NMW budget and Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff numbers from 2015-16 up to 2021-22.

To note, there are also additional staff across HMRC who contribute to enforcing the NMW including lawyers, technical advisers, and those specialising in criminal investigations, who have not been included in the FTE figures provided in the table.