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1505519

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
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	Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of all full-time equivalent staff employed by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate work in front-line roles involving site inspections as of 6 September 2022.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	48366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>As of 6th September 2022, the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate employ 27.4 FTE staff in frontline roles involving site inspections.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/09/2022 14:56:01 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1505520

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
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	Conditions of Employment: Enforcement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it remains the Government’s policy to establish a single enforcement body for employment rights, as stated in its response of June 2021 to a consultation on proposals for such an enforcement body.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	48367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The creation of a single enforcement body for employment rights requires primary legislation which will only be introduced when parliamentary time allows.</del></p><p> </p><p>The creation of this new body will be a substantial organisational change, so it is right that we take our time to thoroughly consider all aspects of this reform before proceeding.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/09/2022 14:56:42 question first ministerially corrected 21/09/2022 08:55:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price previous answer version 18910 answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1505521

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
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	Clothing: Manufacturing Industries
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 the terms of reference are for the review of Operation Tacit by the Director of Labour Market Enforcement; what estimate he has made of when that review will be completed; and if he will publish the findings of that review.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	48368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Director of Labour Market Enforcement is an independent statutory office holder. The terms of reference, timing, and publication of her review are matters for her.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/09/2022 14:58:53 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1505522

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
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	Employment Agencies: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many (a) financial penalties and (b) criminal prosecutions there were for offences under the Employment Agencies Standards Regulations in each year since 2010; and how many and what proportion of prosecutions for such offences led to a conviction in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	48369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Employment Agencies Standards inspectorate (EAS) does not issue financial penalties as it’s legislation does not include provisions to do so. Below is a table setting out the number of prosecutions finalised in each year since 2010 and the proportion of convictions based on Financial Years. The number is low as there are other routes used by EAS to achieve compliance with the legislation and prosecution is considered as a last resort:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Prosecutions</p></td><td><p>Proportion resulting in conviction</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/09/2022 14:59:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1504094

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Migrant Workers: Conditions of Employment
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 make an assessment of UK labour market inspection performance against International Labour Organization benchmarks for (a) the number of labour market inspectors per 10,000 persons employed and (b) the average number of labour inspection visits conducted per inspector.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	45831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2022 answer text <p>This Government has an excellent record on enforcement of employment rights. As part of this we have more than doubled the budget for minimum wage enforcement and compliance, which is now over £27 million per year. In 2020/21 HMRC concluded over 2,700 minimum wage investigations, and returned more than £16.7m in arrears to over 155,000 workers. HMRC issued 575 fines totalling more than £14m to businesses who had failed to pay the minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also continues to invest in the work of the Employment Agency Standards inspectorate (EAS) and the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) which protects vulnerable and exploited workers.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/09/2022 14:55:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock