Caroline Lucas – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Lucas on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Correction of 8 September 2016 to the Answer of 1 June 2016 to Question 38139, how much of the £10.3 million of minimum wage arrears recovered in 2015-16 was recovered from the 814 employers who were issued with both a Notice of Underpayment and a financial penalty; and how many workers were identified as having been underpaid by those 814 employers.

Margot James

Further to the response to PQ 38139, HM Revenue & Custom’s updated enforcement data for 2015/16 shows that 815 employers were issued a Notice of Underpayment and paid a financial penalty for failing to pay the National Minimum Wage. These employers collectively owed £8,157,919 in arrears to 43,995 workers.