Minimum Wage: Wales
(asked on 27th February 2018) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of employers in Wales who paid national minimum wage arrears in each of the last seven years.
The government is clear that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum and Living Wage (NMW) should receive it. Anyone who feels they have been underpaid NMW should contact the Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) review all complaints that are referred to them.
HMRC does not record statistics on complaints or investigations by reference to countries of the United Kingdom, Government regions, constituencies or counties.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) undertook a more detailed analysis of NMW enforcement by workplace regions over the 2015/16 and 2016/17 financial years for the government evidence to the Low Pay Commission (LPC). Information on NMW enforcement by workplace regions for earlier years is not readily available. The data included in the LPC regional analysis is limited to the arrears identified in HMRC investigations. Furthermore, the workplace regions in the analysis relate to the employer’s registered trading address, and not necessarily where the NMW arrears occurred or where the affected workers were based.
Further information can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630197/nmw-nlw-lpc-evidence-compliance-enforcement-2017.pdf