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967915

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
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	Minimum Wage
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 recent discussions his Department has had with the Low Pay Commission on introducing a higher rate of minimum wage for hours not guaranteed as part of a contract.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	170367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>Earlier this year, in the Government’s response to the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, we accepted the review’s recommendation to ask the Low Pay Commission (LPC) to explore the impacts of introducing a higher National Minimum Wage rate for hours that are not guaranteed as part of a contract. Furthermore, we asked the LPC to provide advice on the impacts of alternative options for tackling the issue of one-sided flexibility.</p><p> </p><p>We await the LPC’s assessment of these options.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 12/09/2018 16:55:10 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

914916

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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	Minimum Wage
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 ensure that employers comply with the national minimum wage.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	148717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to fair pay by ensuring workers are paid at least the National Minimum Wage (NMW). In 2017/18, HMRC secured a record volume of pay arrears (£15.6 million) for a record number of workers (201,800).</p><p> </p><p>In 2018/19, we have increased the enforcement budget for the NMW to £26.3 million. This additional resource will allow HMRC to proactively target those employers judged most at risk of not paying the minimum wage. As part of this, we will spend £1.48 million raising awareness of workers’ entitlement to the NMW.</p><p> </p><p>Employers found to be breaking the rules could face penalties of 200% of arrears owed to the worker to a maximum of £20,000 per worker. Anyone concerned they are being underpaid should call the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) Helpline (on 0300 123 1100) for free and confidential advice. HMRC respond to 100% of complaints made.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 11/06/2018 14:13:47 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

901420

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
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	Minimum Wage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the compliance of employers with their requirements to pay the national minimum wage.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL7747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>In April 2017, the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) produced by the Office for National Statistics estimates there were 342,000 jobs with pay less than the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) held by employees aged 16 and over, this constitutes 1.2% of all UK employee jobs. This represents a slight decrease from 365,000 jobs (1.3%) in 2016. Further information is published on the ONS website (copy attached), including important caveats in interpreting the data.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to increasing compliance with the minimum wage. We are clear that anyone entitled to be paid the minimum wage should receive it. We have more than doubled the enforcement budget for the NMW and NLW to £26.3 million for 2018/19, up from £13 million in 2015/16. In 2017/18, HMRC identified a record number of £15.6 million in arrears for over 200,000 workers.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 16/05/2018 15:58:31 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley attachment 1 file name The number of UK jobs from 1998 to 2017 paid below the minimum wage by age group, sex, full-time, part-time, region, occupation and industry.xls title ONS: UK jobs paying below min wage
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

872315

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	Minimum Wage
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 ensure that job applicants are paid at least the minimum wage for work trials.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South
tabling member printed	Stewart Malcolm McDonald
uin	134229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>National Minimum Wage legislation provides that, if an individual is a “worker” for minimum wage purposes, he or she must be paid at least the national minimum or living wage. Short unpaid trials are permissible if they are part of a genuine recruitment exercise.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs take action against employers attempting to exploit workers by not complying with minimum wage legislation. They respond to all complaints and assess the facts of each case. Where they come to the view that unpaid work trials are in fact “work” under National Minimum Wage legislation, they will require the employer to pay any arrears to the worker and to pay a fine of up to 200% of the arrears.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s policy is that it is unacceptable to exploit workers through excessively long unpaid work trials. We are therefore preparing guidance that will bring clarity on the responsibility of employers to pay the National Minimum Wage. We will work with key business and worker stakeholders in developing that guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths grouped question UIN 134228 question first answered 29/03/2018 15:54:11 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald

867200

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
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	Minimum Wage
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 plans he has to respond to the recent finding by HMRC that 98,150 workers were paid less than the minimum wage in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	133318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) enforce the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. We are clear that anyone entitled to be paid the minimum wage should receive it.</p><p> </p><p>The enforcement budget has been increased to £25.3m for 2017/18 up from £13 million in 2015/2016. We have also doubled the fines for firms who break the rules from 100% to 200% of the arrears owed to the worker, up to a maximum of £20,000 per worker.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to proactive targeted enforcement activity and a £1.75 million communications campaign last year to raise employer awareness, HMRC follows up on every complaint it receives; including those made to the ACAS helpline and via the online complaint form.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths grouped question UIN 133319 question first answered 26/03/2018 12:59:38 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

867201

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
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	Minimum Wage
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 he has taken since 2015 to increase compliance with minimum wage regulations by employers.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	133319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) enforce the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. We are clear that anyone entitled to be paid the minimum wage should receive it.</p><p> </p><p>The enforcement budget has been increased to £25.3m for 2017/18 up from £13 million in 2015/2016. We have also doubled the fines for firms who break the rules from 100% to 200% of the arrears owed to the worker, up to a maximum of £20,000 per worker.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to proactive targeted enforcement activity and a £1.75 million communications campaign last year to raise employer awareness, HMRC follows up on every complaint it receives; including those made to the ACAS helpline and via the online complaint form.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths grouped question UIN 133318 question first answered 26/03/2018 12:59:38 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

850225

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
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	Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to publish the latest estimates made by HM Revenue and Customs on the (a) number and (b) proportion of workers in (i) the adult care sector and (ii) each other sector who were paid below the level of the national minimum wage.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	129793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>Estimates of the number of jobs paid below NMW/NLW are available in Chart 3 on page 10 of the 2017 Government evidence to the LPC report- <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630197/nmw-nlw-lpc-evidence-compliance-enforcement-2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630197/nmw-nlw-lpc-evidence-compliance-enforcement-2017.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government will publish new evidence to the Low Pay Commission containing ASHE 2017 estimates of jobs below minimum wage rates and enforcement stats for 2017/18 later this year.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 05/03/2018 14:57:26 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

837309

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
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	Minimum Wage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to enforce minimum wage standards across the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL5385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes robust enforcement action against employers who do not pay their staff in accordance with the National Minimum Wage (NMW) regulations. The budget for enforcing the National Minimum and Living Wage has increased from £13.2 million in 2015/16 to £25.3 million for 2017/18, leading to an increase in the number of compliance officers available to investigate abuses.</p><p>The penalty regime has been significantly strengthened in recent years; in 2016 the financial penalty was increased to 200% of arrears. We have also changed the penalty cap to apply on a ‘per worker’ rather than ‘per employer’ basis; this means that employers who break the law face a maximum penalty up to £20,000 maximum per worker.</p><p>To further deter employers from underpaying their staff, BEIS runs an NMW public naming scheme, publishing a quarterly list of employers who have failed to pay their staff the NMW.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 08/02/2018 17:06:28 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

804441

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
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	Minimum Wage
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 he is taking to ensure that (a) businesses comply with National Minimum Wage legislation and (b) people who have been paid less than they are entitled to receive the money.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	118637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is responsible for ensuring that employers comply with National Minimum Wage (NMW) regulations. The Government has increased its enforcement budget to £25.3 million for 2017/18, up from £13.2 million in 2015/16.</p><p>HMRC conducts risk-based enforcement in sectors or areas where there is perceived to be a higher risk of workers not getting paid the legal minimum wage. It also considers every worker complaint received and has set up a dedicated team focused on tackling the most serious cases of wilful non-compliance.</p><p>Since HMRC began enforcing the minimum wage in April 1999, it has identified almost £79 million in arrears. In 2016/17, HMRC took action against 1,134 businesses, identifying £10.9 million for 98,000 workers who had been illegally underpaid.</p><p>The Government has increased the deterrence against non-compliance, increasing penalties from 100% to 200% of the arrears owed, up to £20,000 maximum per worker and revising the naming criteria, with over 1,500 non-compliant employers named to date.</p><p>In January, the Government appointed Sir David Metcalfe as the first Director of Labour Market Enforcement. He is responsible for producing an annual strategy setting the strategic direction of the three existing labour market enforcement bodies, HMRC’s NMW team, to ensure that enforcement efforts are coordinated and targeted.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 14/12/2017 17:08:46 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

792454

registered interest
date	20/11/2017
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	Minimum Wage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Henley on 13 November (HL3127), what preparations they have made to manage any increase in referrals, investigations and prosecutions for national minimum wage non-compliance which may result from their activity to raise awareness and improve compliance with the legislation.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL3395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to enforcing the rights of workers. We have therefore increased HMRC’s enforcement budget to a record level of £25.3 million for 2017-2018, up from £13 million in 2015/16.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 23/11/2017 13:16:10 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn