Asked by: Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat - East Dunbartonshire)
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 Answers of 16 November 2016, 3 March 2017, 12 September 2017 and 18 December 2017 to Questions 52385, 65376, 7533 and 118376, on Minimum Wage: Arrears, if he will publish the (a) sector and (b) size of the 169 employers who paid additional arrears, not included in the sum of arrears for which they were named and shamed, under the self-correction mechanism introduced by HM Revenue and Customs in 2015.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
A total of 169 employers were instructed to self-correct further arrears in naming rounds 10-13. The sectoral breakdown of those employers is presented in Table 1, below.
Table 1: Employers named under the National Minimum Wage naming scheme (rounds 10-13) and instructed to self-correct by the Low Pay Commission by sector
LPC Sector | No. of Employers instructed to self-correct |
Childcare | 6 |
Employment Agencies | 5 |
Hairdressing | 22 |
Hospitality | 41 |
Retail | 19 |
Social Care | 22 |
Non low paying sectors | 45 |
Other | 9 |
Total | 169 |
Notes
HM Revenue and Customs does not hold complete data on employer size, therefore a breakdown by size is not available.
Asked by: Karin Smyth (Labour - Bristol South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) men and (b) women in Bristol South constituency began apprenticeships in (i) construction skills, (ii) engineering, (ii) IT and telecoms, (iv) IT user, (v) hairdressing, (vi) beauty therapy, (vii) health and social care and (viii) retail in each of the last five years.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The table below shows the number of apprenticeship starts over the last five academic years for men and women in the Bristol South constituency in the following frameworks: construction skills, engineering, IT and telecoms, IT user, hairdressing, beauty therapy, health and social care, and retail.
Table- Apprenticeship starts on selected frameworks by gender, Bristol South, 2011/12 to 2015/16
Female | Male | |||||||||
Frameworks | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Beauty Therapy | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Construction Skills | - | - | - | - | - | 60 | 70 | 50 | 60 | 80 |
Engineering | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
Hairdressing | 70 | 50 | 50 | 40 | 40 | 10 | 10 | 10 | - | 10 |
Health and Social Care | 160 | 140 | 190 | 200 | 140 | 30 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 30 |
IT and Telecoms Professionals | - | - | - | - | 10 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 20 |
IT User | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | 10 | - | - | - |
Retail | 60 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 40 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Note:
Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
A ‘-‘ indicates there have been less than 5 apprenticeship starts
Data on apprenticeship starts by framework and gender at national level is available for the 2002/03 to 2014/15 academic years at the following link:
Asked by: Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects of confidentiality agreements between employers not paying the national minimum wage and their employees challenging that non-payment on the numbers of people coming forward to make a complaint to ACAS.
Answered by Nick Boles
Final approved answer for 2016/02785
No assessment has been made on the impact of confidentiality agreements on the identification of National Minimum Wage (NMW) non-compliance.
Confidentiality is an important protection for workers who wish to make a NMW complaint. If any worker is concerned they have not received what they are entitled to they should contact the ACAS helpline on 0300 123 1100 for free and confidential advice. HMRC follow up every complaint referred to them by Acas and compliance officers can investigate without knowledge of the complainant’s identity. In addition to complaint-led work HMRC investigate employers using third-party intelligence and risk-based targeted enforcement in sectors and areas where there is a higher risk of workers being paid below the NMW.
The Government is committed to cracking down on employers who break NMW law. Between April 2015 and November 2015 HMRC took action against over 500 businesses, identifying over £8 million for 46,000 workers. This is already the largest amount of arrears identified in any single year since the introduction of the NMW.
Building on existing reforms, the Prime Minister announced on 1 September 2015 further measures to strengthen the enforcement of the NMW including higher penalties, a dedicated HMRC team to tackle the most serious cases of wilful non-compliance and additional funding for HMRC from April 2016. We have also increased communications so that working people can access support to make complaints in confidence if needed
Table 1: NMW enquiries to the Pay and Work Rights Helpline by trade sector, 2009/10 to 2014/15.
Trade Sector | 2009/103 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
Activities of households as employers | 20 | 20 | 40 | 20 | 20 | 10 |
Admin/Office work | 2,530 | 4,410 | 3,910 | 2,950 | 3,310 | 2,390 |
Agriculture and related activities | 140 | 100 | 120 | 100 | 110 | 100 |
Cleaning services | 440 | 400 | 350 | 320 | 420 | 320 |
Construction and related trades | 1,350 | 1,290 | 1,050 | 760 | 1,010 | 810 |
Education and teaching | 270 | 370 | 350 | 300 | 540 | 450 |
Food processing and packaging | 90 | 40 | 50 | 20 | 30 | 30 |
Hairdressing | 1,670 | 1,520 | 1,360 | 930 | 1,040 | 730 |
Health, social work and child care | 1,590 | 1,750 | 1,590 | 1,430 | 2,090 | 1,930 |
Hospitality | 1,880 | 1,580 | 1,560 | 1,400 | 1,780 | 1,340 |
Information technology and communication | 150 | 170 | 180 | 120 | 240 | 150 |
Modelling, entertainment, recreation | 90 | 90 | 110 | 80 | 160 | 50 |
Other manufacturing | 240 | 200 | 150 | 140 | 140 | 120 |
Security services | 240 | 170 | 140 | 120 | 150 | 110 |
Shellfish gathering | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Taxi/minicab services | 60 | 40 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 20 |
Textiles | 30 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 80 | 30 |
Training Provider | - | - | - | - | 70 | 70 |
Transport (other than Taxi/mini-cab) | 350 | 380 | 280 | 270 | 440 | 260 |
Warehousing, storage and distribution | 490 | 440 | 420 | 340 | 360 | 310 |
Wholesale and retail trade | 1,580 | 1,560 | 1,550 | 1,150 | 1,470 | 930 |
Other | 4,980 | 3,880 | 2,590 | 1,980 | 2,780 | 2,210 |
Not Known | 3,580 | 2,190 | 5,020 | 5,350 | 5,210 | 7,180 |
Total | 21,700 | 20,600 | 20,900 | 17,800 | 21,500 | 19,500 |
Source: Pay and Workers Rights Helpline and the Acas Helpline
Notes:
Since the 1st April 2015, the Acas Helpline has, in addition to its usual services, been answering queries previously handled by the Pay and Work Rights Helpline.
Provisional in-year data for 2015/16 show there have been 9,800 queries relating to NMW legislation to the Acas Helpline and 3,700 queries relating to non-payment/deductions from NMW. Information on the number of NMW enquiries by trade sector is not collected on a comparable basis as Acas do not ask callers to disclose information about the sector worked in. Therefore, Acas only record this information when a caller chooses to provide it.
Table 1: The number of NMW related calls received by Acas, 2011/12 to 2015/16.
Query topic | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/164 |
NMW | 4,400 | 3,800 | 3,800 | 4,400 | 9,800 |
Non-Payment/Deductions from NMW | 2,000 | 2,500 | 2,900 | 3,100 | 3,700 |
Source: Acas
Notes
Asked by: Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many calls were made to (a) the Pay and Work Rights Helpline and (b) ACAS reporting non-payment of the National Minimum Wage by sector in each of the last five years.
Answered by Nick Boles
Final approved answer for 2016/02785
No assessment has been made on the impact of confidentiality agreements on the identification of National Minimum Wage (NMW) non-compliance.
Confidentiality is an important protection for workers who wish to make a NMW complaint. If any worker is concerned they have not received what they are entitled to they should contact the ACAS helpline on 0300 123 1100 for free and confidential advice. HMRC follow up every complaint referred to them by Acas and compliance officers can investigate without knowledge of the complainant’s identity. In addition to complaint-led work HMRC investigate employers using third-party intelligence and risk-based targeted enforcement in sectors and areas where there is a higher risk of workers being paid below the NMW.
The Government is committed to cracking down on employers who break NMW law. Between April 2015 and November 2015 HMRC took action against over 500 businesses, identifying over £8 million for 46,000 workers. This is already the largest amount of arrears identified in any single year since the introduction of the NMW.
Building on existing reforms, the Prime Minister announced on 1 September 2015 further measures to strengthen the enforcement of the NMW including higher penalties, a dedicated HMRC team to tackle the most serious cases of wilful non-compliance and additional funding for HMRC from April 2016. We have also increased communications so that working people can access support to make complaints in confidence if needed
Table 1: NMW enquiries to the Pay and Work Rights Helpline by trade sector, 2009/10 to 2014/15.
Trade Sector | 2009/103 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
Activities of households as employers | 20 | 20 | 40 | 20 | 20 | 10 |
Admin/Office work | 2,530 | 4,410 | 3,910 | 2,950 | 3,310 | 2,390 |
Agriculture and related activities | 140 | 100 | 120 | 100 | 110 | 100 |
Cleaning services | 440 | 400 | 350 | 320 | 420 | 320 |
Construction and related trades | 1,350 | 1,290 | 1,050 | 760 | 1,010 | 810 |
Education and teaching | 270 | 370 | 350 | 300 | 540 | 450 |
Food processing and packaging | 90 | 40 | 50 | 20 | 30 | 30 |
Hairdressing | 1,670 | 1,520 | 1,360 | 930 | 1,040 | 730 |
Health, social work and child care | 1,590 | 1,750 | 1,590 | 1,430 | 2,090 | 1,930 |
Hospitality | 1,880 | 1,580 | 1,560 | 1,400 | 1,780 | 1,340 |
Information technology and communication | 150 | 170 | 180 | 120 | 240 | 150 |
Modelling, entertainment, recreation | 90 | 90 | 110 | 80 | 160 | 50 |
Other manufacturing | 240 | 200 | 150 | 140 | 140 | 120 |
Security services | 240 | 170 | 140 | 120 | 150 | 110 |
Shellfish gathering | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Taxi/minicab services | 60 | 40 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 20 |
Textiles | 30 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 80 | 30 |
Training Provider | - | - | - | - | 70 | 70 |
Transport (other than Taxi/mini-cab) | 350 | 380 | 280 | 270 | 440 | 260 |
Warehousing, storage and distribution | 490 | 440 | 420 | 340 | 360 | 310 |
Wholesale and retail trade | 1,580 | 1,560 | 1,550 | 1,150 | 1,470 | 930 |
Other | 4,980 | 3,880 | 2,590 | 1,980 | 2,780 | 2,210 |
Not Known | 3,580 | 2,190 | 5,020 | 5,350 | 5,210 | 7,180 |
Total | 21,700 | 20,600 | 20,900 | 17,800 | 21,500 | 19,500 |
Source: Pay and Workers Rights Helpline and the Acas Helpline
Notes:
Since the 1st April 2015, the Acas Helpline has, in addition to its usual services, been answering queries previously handled by the Pay and Work Rights Helpline.
Provisional in-year data for 2015/16 show there have been 9,800 queries relating to NMW legislation to the Acas Helpline and 3,700 queries relating to non-payment/deductions from NMW. Information on the number of NMW enquiries by trade sector is not collected on a comparable basis as Acas do not ask callers to disclose information about the sector worked in. Therefore, Acas only record this information when a caller chooses to provide it.
Table 1: The number of NMW related calls received by Acas, 2011/12 to 2015/16.
Query topic | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/164 |
NMW | 4,400 | 3,800 | 3,800 | 4,400 | 9,800 |
Non-Payment/Deductions from NMW | 2,000 | 2,500 | 2,900 | 3,100 | 3,700 |
Source: Acas
Notes
Asked by: John McNally (Scottish National Party - Falkirk)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people are employed as practitioners within the UK hair industry.
Answered by Anna Soubry
In Official Statistics types of business are subdivided by internationally agreed Standard Industrial Classification codes. These do not have sufficient detail to separately identify the hair industry but group this under SIC 96.02 - Hairdressing and other beauty treatment, which also includes facial, nail care and other make-up and beauty services. According to the latest Annual Business Survey (ONS) this industry accounted for 139,000 jobs in 2014.
Asked by: John McNally (Scottish National Party - Falkirk)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the value of the hair industry to the economy.
Answered by Anna Soubry
In Official Statistics types of business are subdivided by internationally agreed Standard Industrial Classification codes. These do not have sufficient detail to separately identify the hair industry but group this under SIC 96.02 - Hairdressing and other beauty treatment, which also includes facial, nail care and other make-up and beauty services. According to the latest ONS Annual Business Survey this industry contributed nearly £2.7bn in gross value added to the UK economy in 2014.
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has made an assessment of the need for regulation of hairdressing.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The Government is currently reviewing all UK regulated professions under the Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications Directive. Part of this review will assess the necessity and proportionality of the current arrangements, with a view to cutting red tape where possible. We will make any further announcements when the review concludes in January. While there are regulations governing the suitability of premises, the hairdressing profession itself is not regulated. Anyone is free to practice as a hairdresser and there are no statutory requirements for the majority of those employed within this sector to register on a national register. However, the Hair Council has developed and operates a voluntary registration scheme which is recognised within the hairdressing industry.
Asked by: Philip Hollobone (Conservative - Kettering)
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, in which professions and sectors are (a) women and (b) men most over-represented; and what steps she is taking to encourage more equal gender representation in such areas.
Answered by Jo Swinson
According to the Labour Force Survey, women are most over-represented (80%+) in the childcare and nursing/caring professions, as well as in hairdressing and secretarial occupations. Men are most over-represented (90%+) in construction, engineering, electrical trades and transport.
Changing these patterns needs to start in childhood and the Government is working hard to ensure that boys and girls are able to consider a broad range of career opportunities, unhindered by out dated stereotypes. For example, the Government supports the Your Life campaign, which aims to double the proportion of undergraduate engineering and technology degrees taken by women to 30% by 2030. It also asks employers to take action to recruit and retain female talent.
To help make sure young people are able to consider the widest possible range of jobs the Government is setting up a new careers and enterprise company to support greater engagement between employers, and schools and colleges. Chaired by Christine Hodgson (Chair of Capgemini UK) it will be independent of government and will ensure young people get the inspiration and guidance they need to leave school or college ready to succeed in working life.
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on the number of people (a) qualified and (b) qualified at level 3 as hairdressers and barbers.
Answered by Nick Boles
Information on the total number of people in the population with a Hairdressing or Barbering qualification is not held centrally. The Department only holds data on government-funded learners.
Table 1 shows the number of non-apprenticeship learners who achieved a Hairdressing or Barbering qualification in the 2013/14 academic year, and at what level.
Table 2 shows the number of learners who achieved an apprenticeship in Hairdressing or Barbering in the 2013/14 academic year, and at what level.
Table 1. Adult (19+) FE & Skills (excluding Apprenticeships) Achievements by Level; Hairdressing and Barbering (2013/14 Full Year)
| Achievements |
All FE and Skills (excluding apprenticeships) | 33,680 |
of which: | |
Below Level 2 | 8,850 |
Level 2 | 17,810 |
Level 3 | 7,650 |
Level 4+ | 60 |
Notes
1) This table includes Workplace Learning, Community Learning and Education and Training provision (including the Offender Learning and Skills Service) taken at General Further Education Colleges (including Tertiary), Sixth Form Colleges, Special Colleges, Specialist Colleges and External Institutions.
Table 2. All Age Learner Achievements in the Hairdressing and Barbering Apprenticeship Frameworks, by Level (2013/14 Full Year)
Intermediate (Level 2) | Advanced (Level 3) | Higher (Level 4+) | Total Achievements | |
Barbering | 1,370 | 350 | - | 1,710 |
Hairdressing | 6,130 | 3,450 | - | 9,570 |
Notes
1) Figures represent the number of learners who have achieved an apprenticeship framework, as opposed to the number of framework achievements, in the 2013/14 academic year. Total achievements will therefore differ from those published for frameworks. Framework achievements are published here https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/378242/apprenticeships-achievements-by-sase-framework.xls
Asked by: Baroness Sharp of Guildford (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many and what proportion of (1) 16 year-olds, (2) 17 year-olds, and (3) 18 year-olds started an apprenticeship in England in 2012–13 and 2013–14 in hairdressing and barbering.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
Table one shows the number apprenticeship starts for ages 16, 17 and 18 in 2012/13 and 2013/14 in the hairdressing and barbering frameworks. Information on the proportion of each age group that start an apprenticeship is not available from the official data.
Table 1 Apprenticeship Starts by Age and Framework, 2012/13 to 2013/14
Framework | Age | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
Barbering | 16 | 70 | 100 |
17 | 200 | 180 | |
18 | 360 | 350 | |
Hairdressing | 16 | 4,100 | 3,890 |
17 | 3,170 | 3,200 | |
18 | 3,100 | 3,060 |
Notes
1) The source is the Individualised Learner Record.
2) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.
3) Age is calculated based on age at start of the programme.