Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons officials of his Department did not attend the meeting of the Legal Working Group on seafarers and the national minimum wage held at the Department for Transport on (a) 22 February and (b) 1 November 2017.

The Government is committed to cracking down on employers who break National Minimum Wage law. Officials engage regularly with members of the Legal Working Group on Seafarers and the National Minimum Wage, particularly in relation to updating Government guidance.