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	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to enforce the National Minimum Wage, and in particular to protect the employees of agencies and those on zero-hours contracts from exploitation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL5
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The Government is committed to increasing compliance with minimum wage legislation and effective enforcement of it. Everyone who is entitled to the minimum wage should receive it.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>HMRC enforces the National Minimum Wage for all workers. This includes agency workers and those on zero hour contracts. HMRC investigates every complaint made to the Pay and Work Rights helpline. In addition, HMRC conducts risk-based enforcement in sectors or areas where there is a higher risk of workers not getting paid the legal minimum wage.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The Government is taking a tougher approach on employers that break National Minimum Wage law and has already made it simpler to name and shame employers that break NMW law. The Government has also increased the financial penalty percentage that employers pay for breaking minimum wage law.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 18/06/2014 13:53:18 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

61410

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2013, Official Report, column 130W, on minimum wage, if he will take steps to provide (a) clear and comprehensive guidance on the national minimum wage on gov.uk and (b) sector-specific guidance and case studies on the national minimum wage for the entertainment sector.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	200284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Since May 2013, we have introduced clear and comprehensive guidance on gov.uk on the National Minimum Wage and more specifically on work experience and internships. This guidance can be found here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/calculating-the-minimum-wage" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/calculating-the-minimum-wage</a> and <a href="http://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-work-experience-and-internships" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-work-experience-and-internships</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This guidance on work experience contains case studies from a variety of sectors, including the entertainment sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Employers and workers with queries about the application of the National Minimum Wage are also able to access free and confidential advice through the Pay and Work Rights Helpline on 0800 917 2368</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 16/06/2014 15:51:01 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

61438

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many of the employers issued with a notice of underpayment of the minimum wage by HM Revenue and Customs since 1 October 2013 have been considered for naming and shaming by his Department; how many of those employers have successfully appealed against being named and shamed; how many employers have been named and shamed; and how many cases remain under consideration.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	200277
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>Under the revised Naming Scheme the Government will name all employers that have been issued with a Notice of Underpayment (NoU) unless employers meet one of the exceptional criteria or have arrears of £100 or less.</p><p>Employers have 28 days to appeal against the NoU. If the employer does not appeal or unsuccessfully appeals against this NoU, BIS will consider them for naming. The employer then has 14 days to make representations to BIS outlining whether they meet any of the very exceptional criteria: naming by BIS carries a risk of personal harm to an individual or their family, or there are national security risks associated with naming, or there are other factors which suggests that it would not be in the public interest to name the employer or company. Of these, the public interest criteria will only apply in very exceptional circumstances. If BIS do not receive any representations or the representations received do not meet the criteria, the employer will be named via a BIS press release.</p><p>One employer has made a representation that was successful and four employers have had arrears of under £100. We are unable to release information on how many cases are under consideration.</p><p>The Government has already named 30 employers under the revised scheme. Between them they owed workers over £50,000 in arrears and have been charged financial penalties totalling over £24,000.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 18/06/2014 15:04:53 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas