Minimum Wage: Underpayments

(asked on 31st January 2023) - View Source

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 Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 7th February 2023

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.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1074680/nlw-nmw-enforcement-compliance-statistics.xlsx

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.

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