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 9 September 2016 to Question 44312, what the total sum of arrears was that was recovered by HM Revenue and Customs for non-compliance with the national minimum wage in the first half of 2016-17; how many (a) workers and (b) employers those arrears relate to; how much of that total sum of arrears was recovered through the self-correction mechanism introduced in 2015; and how many (i) workers and (ii) employers those self-corrected arrears relate to.

Provisional data for the first six months of the 2016-17 reporting year (April 2016 to September 2016) show that £3,968,649 in total arrears have been identified for 48,154 workers from 1,420 employer investigations.

Further breakdowns of National Minimum Wage enforcement statistics will be available following the conclusion of the 2016-17 reporting year.