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637241

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Low Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to respond to the recommendations by the Low Pay Commission made in the National Minimum Wage: Low Pay Commission Report, Spring 2016, published in March 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	53165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government published its response accepting all the Low Pay Commission’s rate recommendations on 14 March 2016.</p><p>The Government is considering the Low Pay Commission’s non-rate recommendations. On the recommendation relating to a formal public protocol to handle third party whistleblowing on breaches of the National Minimum Wage, a trial is underway involving Citizens Advice Bureaux acting as a third party on behalf of complainants. The trial will be evaluated before a decision is taken on any wider roll-out.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 18/11/2016 10:49:22 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

678137

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Low Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will introduce local low pay commissions.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	61490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to delivering an economy that works for all by spreading wealth and prosperity more evenly across the country. Through the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage, the Government is ensuring the lowest paid receive their fair share of the gains from economic growth. The independent work of the Low Pay Commission (LPC) continues to play a central role in helping to achieve these ambitions.</p><p> </p><p>The LPC will continue to make recommendations on wage related issues to ensure that wages rise to reward workers while considering the impact on the economy. The Government has no plans to introduce local low pay commissions.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/01/2017 09:08:07 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

678766

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Low Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will support the establishment of local low pay commissions.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	61658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to delivering an economy that works for all by spreading wealth and prosperity more evenly across the country. Through the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage, the Government is ensuring the lowest paid receive their fair share of the gains from economic growth. The independent work of the Low Pay Commission (LPC) continues to play a central role in helping to achieve these ambitions.</p><p> </p><p>The LPC will continue to make recommendations on wage related issues to ensure that wages rise to reward workers while considering the impact on the economy. The Government has no plans to introduce local low pay commissions.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 30/01/2017 15:41:52 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

732666

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Low Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to page 149 of the report UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing the Low Pay Commission's compliance and operational proposals in full.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	1120
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government carefully considers all Low Pay Commission recommendations. We continue to strengthen our enforcement of the National Minimum Wage, including the three areas identified in the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s report.</p><p>For example, we have increased resources available for enforcement – to £20 million in 2016/17, increasing to £25.3m for 2017/18.</p><p>Last year, HMRC identified a record £10.9 million in arrears for 98,000 workers.</p><p>Tougher penalties for non-compliance were introduced in April 2016 – underpayments occurring since then are subject to a penalty of 200% the value of the arrears, capped at £20,000 per worker.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 03/07/2017 10:44:48 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

892165

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Low Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to tackle low pay.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	138424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>From 1 April 2018, the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage increased above inflation to give more than two million of the lowest paid workers a pay rise of over 2 per cent in real terms. Over the next 12 months, full time workers aged 25 and over on the National Living Wage will see their earnings grow by more than £600.</p><p> </p><p>In the longer term, the Government’s ambitious, modern Industrial Strategy sets out a long-term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK. It sets out how we will help businesses create better, higher-paying jobs with investment in the skills, industries and infrastructure of the future.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 03/05/2018 15:33:37 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith