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<p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone entitled to the National
Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) receives it. This is why we have
more than doubled the compliance and enforcement budget for the NMW and NLW to £27.4
million for 2019/20, up from £13.2 million in 2015/16.</p><p>In 2018/19, HM Revenue
& Customs (HMRC) identified a record £24.4 million in minimum wage arrears for
over 220,000 workers and issued over £17 million in penalties to non-compliant employers.</p><p>The
Naming Scheme is the appropriate mechanism to state which employers have underpaid
National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage. The Department of Business, Energy
and Industrial Strategy is reviewing the Naming Scheme; the outcome of that review
will be published in due course.</p>
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