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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of care sector companies that do not pay the national minimum wage have been named and shamed by his Department since it began publicly identifying non-compliant employers; and if he will make a statement.

Since the introduction of the revised National Minimum Wage naming scheme in 2013, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has named over 1,200 employers; over 70 of those employers were from the care sector.

The vast majority of employers (over 95%) who meet the minimum criteria for naming under the scheme are ultimately named. Information on the naming scheme policy is published here - https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632656/national-minimum-wage-enforcement-policy-july-2017.pdf