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1312222

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
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 and National Minimum Wage Enforcement Unit
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 publish a classification of the matters being investigated by the (a) Employment Standards Agency Inspectorate and (b) HMRC National Minimum Wage enforcement team for the 2020-21 annual reporting period.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	187245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>HMRC National Minimum Wage team investigate matters classified as non-payment of the national minimum wage. In spite of the pandemic, 2020/21 was another successful year for HMRC’s minimum wage enforcement activities. HMRC investigated over 2,700 businesses and closed almost 1,000 cases with arrears, secured more than £16.5 million in arrears for more than 155,000 workers, and issued 575 penalties amounting to over £14 million. HMRC continue to take strong action against the most serious non-compliant businesses and as of March 2021 there are 24 employers in a Labour Market Enforcement Undertaking, and 15 employers have been prosecuted for NMW offences since 2007.</p><p> </p><p>Over the course of 2020/21, the HMRC Promote team facilitated nearly 800,000 employers and workers to seek further information in relation to the minimum wage.</p><p>This included:</p><p>- Sending more than 400,000 texts to apprentices regarding the risk of underpayment from unpaid training time;</p><p>- Writing to nearly 200,000 employers and workers;</p><p>- Producing a variety of webinars and educational videos that accumulated nearly 20,000 views.</p><p>In addition to the above, the “Calculating the Minimum Wage” guidance had nearly 50,000 views; and there were almost 9,000 views of the work experience and intern’s guidance.</p><p> </p><p>There were more than 400 full time employees on average involved in HMRC’s enforcement of the minimum wage over the 2020/21 reporting year.</p><p> </p><p>The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate also continued to investigate all complaints throughout 2020/21 and undertook proactive inspections of employment businesses. These included issues concerning non-payment or withholding earnings, being charged to find work, contractual disputes, lack of clarity of deductions, advertising of roles, and failure to obtain either sufficient information from a hiring company or work-seeker. It investigated a total of 1631 complaints in the 2020/21 period and undertook 151 pro-active investigations.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 187246 187247 question first answered 29/04/2021 07:37:45 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1312223

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
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	National Minimum Wage Enforcement Unit: 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 frontline (a) enforcement officers and (b) inspectors were employed on average in the HMRC National Minimum Wage enforcement team for the 2020-21 annual reporting period.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	187246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>HMRC National Minimum Wage team investigate matters classified as non-payment of the national minimum wage. In spite of the pandemic, 2020/21 was another successful year for HMRC’s minimum wage enforcement activities. HMRC investigated over 2,700 businesses and closed almost 1,000 cases with arrears, secured more than £16.5 million in arrears for more than 155,000 workers, and issued 575 penalties amounting to over £14 million. HMRC continue to take strong action against the most serious non-compliant businesses and as of March 2021 there are 24 employers in a Labour Market Enforcement Undertaking, and 15 employers have been prosecuted for NMW offences since 2007.</p><p> </p><p>Over the course of 2020/21, the HMRC Promote team facilitated nearly 800,000 employers and workers to seek further information in relation to the minimum wage.</p><p>This included:</p><p>- Sending more than 400,000 texts to apprentices regarding the risk of underpayment from unpaid training time;</p><p>- Writing to nearly 200,000 employers and workers;</p><p>- Producing a variety of webinars and educational videos that accumulated nearly 20,000 views.</p><p>In addition to the above, the “Calculating the Minimum Wage” guidance had nearly 50,000 views; and there were almost 9,000 views of the work experience and intern’s guidance.</p><p> </p><p>There were more than 400 full time employees on average involved in HMRC’s enforcement of the minimum wage over the 2020/21 reporting year.</p><p> </p><p>The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate also continued to investigate all complaints throughout 2020/21 and undertook proactive inspections of employment businesses. These included issues concerning non-payment or withholding earnings, being charged to find work, contractual disputes, lack of clarity of deductions, advertising of roles, and failure to obtain either sufficient information from a hiring company or work-seeker. It investigated a total of 1631 complaints in the 2020/21 period and undertook 151 pro-active investigations.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 187245 187247 question first answered 29/04/2021 07:37:45 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1312224

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
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 and National Minimum Wage Enforcement Unit
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 investigations were carried out by the (a) Employment Standards Agency Inspectorate and (b) HMRC National Minimum Wage enforcement team for the 2020-21 annual reporting period.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	187247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>HMRC National Minimum Wage team investigate matters classified as non-payment of the national minimum wage. In spite of the pandemic, 2020/21 was another successful year for HMRC’s minimum wage enforcement activities. HMRC investigated over 2,700 businesses and closed almost 1,000 cases with arrears, secured more than £16.5 million in arrears for more than 155,000 workers, and issued 575 penalties amounting to over £14 million. HMRC continue to take strong action against the most serious non-compliant businesses and as of March 2021 there are 24 employers in a Labour Market Enforcement Undertaking, and 15 employers have been prosecuted for NMW offences since 2007.</p><p> </p><p>Over the course of 2020/21, the HMRC Promote team facilitated nearly 800,000 employers and workers to seek further information in relation to the minimum wage.</p><p>This included:</p><p>- Sending more than 400,000 texts to apprentices regarding the risk of underpayment from unpaid training time;</p><p>- Writing to nearly 200,000 employers and workers;</p><p>- Producing a variety of webinars and educational videos that accumulated nearly 20,000 views.</p><p>In addition to the above, the “Calculating the Minimum Wage” guidance had nearly 50,000 views; and there were almost 9,000 views of the work experience and intern’s guidance.</p><p> </p><p>There were more than 400 full time employees on average involved in HMRC’s enforcement of the minimum wage over the 2020/21 reporting year.</p><p> </p><p>The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate also continued to investigate all complaints throughout 2020/21 and undertook proactive inspections of employment businesses. These included issues concerning non-payment or withholding earnings, being charged to find work, contractual disputes, lack of clarity of deductions, advertising of roles, and failure to obtain either sufficient information from a hiring company or work-seeker. It investigated a total of 1631 complaints in the 2020/21 period and undertook 151 pro-active investigations.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 187245 187246 question first answered 29/04/2021 07:37:45 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1312225

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Health and Safety Executive
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish a classification of the matters being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive for the 2020-21 annual reporting period.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	187248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has no plans to routinely publish the classification of the matters being investigated.</p><p>For information, Table 1 below provides details of incidents which occurred in 2020/21 which were investigated or are under investigation following a report received under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR).</p><p>Please note these figures do not include 183,632 COVID related spot checks carried out by HSE in 2020/21</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>RIDDOR INVESTIGATIONS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Count</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dangerous Occurrences</p></td><td><p>260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>High fall (over 2m)</p></td><td><p>152</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Contact with machinery</p></td><td><p>146</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>COVID-19 non-fatal</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dangerous Gas Fittings</p></td><td><p>112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Struck by object</p></td><td><p>92</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other ill health</p></td><td><p>88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>COVID-19 fatal</p></td><td><p>68</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low fall (up to &amp; inc. 2m)</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Struck by moving vehicle</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Another kind of accident</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Slip, trip, fall same level</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Injured by an animal</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trapped by something collapsing</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exposure to harmful substance</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Struck against</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gas Incidents</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Contact with electricity</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exposed to fire</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lifting and handling injuries</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Physical assault</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fall (height not known)</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drowned or asphyxiated</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exposed to explosion</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1465</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2 below provides details of workplace concerns which were raised in 2020/21 and investigated or are still under investigation by an Inspector.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>CONCERNS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Count</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Construction</p></td><td><p>2211</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gas</p></td><td><p>391</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>COVID*</p></td><td><p>1192</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>5813</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pesticides</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working Time</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9649</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Table 2</p><p> </p><p>*in the reporting year 2020/21, HSE dealt with almost 21,000 COVID related workplace concerns with the majority being resolved by the national Concerns and Advisory Team without the need to be passed to an Inspector for investigation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/04/2021 10:12:45 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1312226

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Health and Safety Executive: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many frontline (a) enforcement officers and (b) inspectors were employed on average in the Health and Safety Executive for the 2020-21 annual reporting period.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	187249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>On average, in 2020/21, HSE employed (a) 85 full-time equivalent (FTE) visiting health and safety officers and (b) 967 FTE Inspectors.</p><p>1. Please note that HSE does not use the category ‘enforcement officer’. Visiting health and safety and Inspector figures are provided, as published in The Annual Report and Accounts.</p><ol start="2"><li>967 inspectors is the total number of staff in all grades and roles, including trainees, managers and specialists with warrants.</li></ol> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/04/2021 09:38:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1311498

registered interest
date	22/04/2021
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: Inspections
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 workplace inspections were carried out by the (a) Employment Standards Agency Inspectorate, (b) HMRC National Minimum Wage enforcement team, (c) Health and Safety Executive and (d) Gangmaster Labour Abuse Authority for the annual reporting period 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	185913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>All bodies continued to carry out workplace inspections throughout 2020-21, either remotely or face to face in line with Covid safety guidelines. Please see the figures in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em><strong>Body</strong></em></p></td><td><p><em><strong>Number of workplace inspections in 2020-21</strong></em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate</p></td><td><p>151</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMRC National Minimum Wage</p></td><td><p>2,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health and Safety Executive</p></td><td><p>14,754 workplace inspections 182,610 spot checks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gangmaster Labour Abuse Authority</p></td><td><p>440</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 27/04/2021 15:39:17 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1308998

registered interest
date	14/04/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Care Workers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that social care providers are not reducing the amount paid to staff working sleep-in shifts following the Supreme Court ruling of 19 March 2021 on sleep-in shifts.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	181000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2021 answer text <p>The Supreme Court has upheld the Court of Appeal judgment that workers on ‘sleep-in’ shifts are only entitled to the minimum wage for the time they are awake for the purpose of working.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of care workers are employed by private sector providers who ultimately set their pay, independent of central Government. Local authorities work with care providers to determine a fair rate of pay based on local market conditions. The Government is working closely with local authorities and providers in order to consider the implications of the judgement for the sector and next steps.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 181001 181005 question first answered 21/04/2021 09:51:23 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1308999

registered interest
date	14/04/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Care Workers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage social care providers to increase payments to staff working sleep-in shifts.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	181001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2021 answer text <p>The Supreme Court has upheld the Court of Appeal judgment that workers on ‘sleep-in’ shifts are only entitled to the minimum wage for the time they are awake for the purpose of working.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of care workers are employed by private sector providers who ultimately set their pay, independent of central Government. Local authorities work with care providers to determine a fair rate of pay based on local market conditions. The Government is working closely with local authorities and providers in order to consider the implications of the judgement for the sector and next steps.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 181000 181005 question first answered 21/04/2021 09:51:23 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1309000

registered interest
date	14/04/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Care Workers: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the workload of social care staff working sleep-in shifts.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	181002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 181003 question first answered 27/04/2021 11:26:30 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1309001

registered interest
date	14/04/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Care Workers: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the average number of hours that social care staff on sleep-in shifts spend (a) working and (b)sleeping.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	181003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 181002 question first answered 27/04/2021 11:26:30 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain