Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on external recruitment consultants in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Consistent to answers given to written questions on 23 February 2023 and 17 May 2022, the information requested on external recruitment consultant expenditure is not available as we do not centrally hold data with this level of granularity on recruitment costs for the financial years in question.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on external consultants in 2022.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The information on how much the department has spent on consultancy will be published in the HMT annual report and accounts for the financial year 2022-23 late this summer as it has done in previous years.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2023 to Question 138357 on Government Consulting Hub, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of Government spend on consultants between (a) May 2020 and May 21, (b) May 2021 and May 2022 and (c) May 2022 to date.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Information regarding Government spend on consultants is not held centrally by HM Treasury.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many suppliers his Department excluded from procurement on the grounds of (a) fraud, (b) corruption and (c) other grounds under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 from 2015 to 2022.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
HM Treasury does not hold a central register of suppliers who may have been excluded from bidding for contracts with the department.Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employers were served with a Notice of Underpayment in each year between 2010 and 2022.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) receives it.
HMRC continues to crack down on employers who ignore the law, ensuring that workers receive the wages they are entitled to.
Data on the number of penalties issued by HMRC to employers in breach of National Minimum Wage (NMW) legislation is published routinely by financial years. Table 1 in the link below provides this data for each financial year between 2010/2011 – 2020/2021. The data for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 has not yet been published.
The numbers of Notices of Underpayment (NoUs) issued for each financial year between 2010/2011 – 2020/2021 is in the table below.
Year | Number of NoUs |
2010/2011 | 1,140 |
2011/2012 | 968 |
2012/2013 | 736 |
2013/2014 | 680 |
2014/2015 | 735 |
2015/2016 | 862 |
2016/2017 | 888 |
2017/2018 | 836 |
2018/2019 | 1,049 |
2019/2020 | 1,031 |
2020/2021 | 610 |
Data covering the year 2022/2023 has not been finalised.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employers were served with penalties for not paying their staff the national minimum wage in each year between 2010 and 2022.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) receives it.
HMRC continues to crack down on employers who ignore the law, ensuring that workers receive the wages they are entitled to.
Data on the number of penalties issued by HMRC to employers in breach of National Minimum Wage (NMW) legislation is published routinely by financial years. Table 1 in the link below provides this data for each financial year between 2010/2011 – 2020/2021. The data for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 has not yet been published.
The numbers of Notices of Underpayment (NoUs) issued for each financial year between 2010/2011 – 2020/2021 is in the table below.
Year | Number of NoUs |
2010/2011 | 1,140 |
2011/2012 | 968 |
2012/2013 | 736 |
2013/2014 | 680 |
2014/2015 | 735 |
2015/2016 | 862 |
2016/2017 | 888 |
2017/2018 | 836 |
2018/2019 | 1,049 |
2019/2020 | 1,031 |
2020/2021 | 610 |
Data covering the year 2022/2023 has not been finalised.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employers were served with a Notice of Underpayment between 1 January and 31 December 2022.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) receives it.
HMRC continues to crack down on employers who ignore the law, ensuring that workers receive the wages they are entitled to.
Data on the number of penalties issued by HMRC to employers in breach of National Minimum Wage (NMW) legislation is published routinely by financial years. Table 1 in the link below provides this data for each financial year between 2010/2011 – 2020/2021. The data for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 has not yet been published.
The numbers of Notices of Underpayment (NoUs) issued for each financial year between 2010/2011 – 2020/2021 is in the table below.
Year | Number of NoUs |
2010/2011 | 1,140 |
2011/2012 | 968 |
2012/2013 | 736 |
2013/2014 | 680 |
2014/2015 | 735 |
2015/2016 | 862 |
2016/2017 | 888 |
2017/2018 | 836 |
2018/2019 | 1,049 |
2019/2020 | 1,031 |
2020/2021 | 610 |
Data covering the year 2022/2023 has not been finalised.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employers were served with penalties for not paying their staff the national minimum wage between 1 January and 31 December 2022.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) receives it.
HMRC continues to crack down on employers who ignore the law, ensuring that workers receive the wages they are entitled to.
Data on the number of penalties issued by HMRC to employers in breach of National Minimum Wage (NMW) legislation is published routinely by financial years. Table 1 in the link below provides this data for each financial year between 2010/2011 – 2020/2021. The data for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 has not yet been published.
The numbers of Notices of Underpayment (NoUs) issued for each financial year between 2010/2011 – 2020/2021 is in the table below.
Year | Number of NoUs |
2010/2011 | 1,140 |
2011/2012 | 968 |
2012/2013 | 736 |
2013/2014 | 680 |
2014/2015 | 735 |
2015/2016 | 862 |
2016/2017 | 888 |
2017/2018 | 836 |
2018/2019 | 1,049 |
2019/2020 | 1,031 |
2020/2021 | 610 |
Data covering the year 2022/2023 has not been finalised.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average tax penalty paid to HMRC for (a) late and (b) underpaid taxation was in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Below is a table providing the average penalty value (rounded to the nearest £ hundred) between 2019-20 to 2021-22.
Tax Years | Average Penalty Value |
2019/20 | £4,300 |
2020/21 | £3,700 |
2021/22 | £3,500 |
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid to HMRC in tax penalties for (a) underpayment and (b) late payment in the period between 1 January 2022 and 1 January 2023.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Below is a table providing the total value of penalties issued (rounded to the nearest £ million) and the number of penalties issued (rounded to the nearest thousand) between 2019-20 to 2021/22.
In addition, our penalty data is reported by financial, not calendar, years, so have provided data for the 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial years.
Tax Years | Total Value of Penalties Issued | Number of Penalties Issued |
2019/20 | £329m | 76k |
2020/21 | £239m | 65k |
2021/22 | £366m | 106k |