To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant
to the Answer of 21 January 2020 to Question 3164 on Employment Tribunals Service:
Fines, how many individual, previously unpaid awards are represented by (a) the total
sum of £1,343,941.96 recovered as a result of only issuing a warning letter, and (b)
the total sum of £1,222,472.23 recovered as a result of issuing both a warning letter
and a penalty notice; and how many of the 2,067 warning letters and 1,302 penalty
notices were issued in (i) 2016-17 (ii) 2017-18 (iii) 2018-19 and (iv) 2019-20 to
date.
<p>Under this government a total of £2,566,414.19 in previously unpaid awards has
been secured for workers since April 2016. A total of £1,343,941.96 was recovered
for 231 workers after only issuing a warning notice. A total of £1,222,472.23 was
recovered for 225 workers after issuing a penalty notice.</p><p> </p><p>Of the 2,067
warning letters and 1,302 penalty notices issued:</p><p>(i) 244 warning notices and
124 penalty notices were issued in 2016-17;</p><p>(ii) 390 warning notices and 277
penalty notices were issued in 2017-18;</p><p>(iii) 736 warning notices and 471 penalty
notices were issued in 2018-19 and</p><p>(iv) 697 warning notices and 430 penalty
notices have been issued in 2019-20 to date.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference
to the Answer of 11 January 2017 to Question 58968 on Employment Tribunals Service:
Fines, how many (a) warning notices and (b) financial penalty notices have been issued
to respondent employers to date under section 150 of the Small Business, Enterprise
and Employment Act 2015 for failure to pay an employment tribunal award; how many
of those financial penalties (i) have been paid and (ii) remain unpaid; how many previously
unpaid awards have been recovered by his Department following (A) the issuing of a
warning notice only and (B) the issuing of both a warning notice and a financial penalty
notice; and how much money was recovered in each category.
<p>Under this government a total of £2,566,414.19 in previously unpaid awards has
been secured for workers since April 2016. £1,343,941.96 has been recovered as a result
of only issuing a warning letter. A further £1,222,472.23 has been recovered as a
result of issuing both a warning letter and a penalty notice. The Employment Tribunals
penalty regime promotes and secures prompt payment of unpaid employment tribunal awards
and Acas settlements.</p><p>The penalty regime for failure to pay employment tribunal
awards started in April 2016. Since then 2,067 warning letters and 1,302 penalty notices
have been issued.</p><p>Of the 2,067 warning letters that have been issued:</p><ul><li>157
are being pursued through a debt collection agency;</li><li>459 have been pursued
through a debt collection agency but the penalty has not been recovered;</li><li>509
were withdrawn because the employment tribunal award was paid;</li><li>647 are not
enforceable due to liquidation and/or insolvency;</li><li>258 are currently within
the payment period; and</li><li>37 financial penalties have been paid.</li></ul>
