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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2016 to Question 39267, how much of the £2,065,874 of arrears recovered from the 145 employers found to be non-compliant with the national minimum wage but not issued with a Notice of Underpayment or financial penalty was recovered through the self-correction mechanism introduced by HM Revenue and Customs in 2015; from how many employers those arrears were recovered; and how many of the 14,055 workers for whom arrears were recovered benefited only as a result of that self-correction of arrears by their employer.

In the above-referenced cases, 46 employers reported £688,695 of arrears owed to 3,341 through the self-correction mechanism.