Minimum Wage
(asked on 29th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent estimate she has made of the level of compliance with the National Minimum Wage.
This question was answered on 6th July 2023
All businesses – irrespective of their size or business sector – are responsible for paying the correct minimum wage to their staff.
The government takes enforcing the minimum wage seriously and has more than doubled the budget for compliance and enforcement to £27.8 million for 2022/23, up from £13.2 million in 2015/16.
Since 2015, the Government has ordered employers to repay over £100 million to over 1 million workers.