Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-03-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Freedom of Information Request release of 1 October 2014, reference BIS/FOI/2014/20352, what the data on referrals is for each financial year between 2009-10 and 2015-16.
Nick Boles
The Pay and Work Rights Helpline (PWRH) was replaced by the Acas helpline from 1st April 2015, meaning that the same data referred to in the FOI referenced above is not available for 2015/16. The table below shows the data on referrals from the PWRH to relevant enforcement authorities for the 2009/10 financial year.
|
2009/10* |
|
|
HMRC |
3000 |
|
EAS |
820 |
|
HSE |
290 |
|
DEFRA |
440 |
|
GLA |
100 |
*The Pay and Work Rights Helpline opened in May 2009
Notes
1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10
2. Calls can be referred to more than one agency so the sum does not amount to the total number of calls referred for the period
3. Calls referred to agencies includes complaints, complex queries and calls where intelligence was passed to other agencies
