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The Government is committed to cracking down on employers who fail to pay the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage when it is due. In the past three years, we have doubled HMRC\u2019s budget to enforce the minimum wage from £13.2 million in 2015/16 to a record £26.3 million in 2018/19.<\/p>
As a result, the Government achieved record enforcement results in 2017/18. We closed 1,046 cases for breaches of the minimum wage legislation, identifying £15.6 million of minimum wage arrears owed to over 200,000 workers.<\/p>
The Government\u2019s latest evidence on compliance and enforcement regarding the minimum wage can be found at the following link:<\/p>