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 in (a) Newport West constituency and (b) Wales.

All businesses – irrespective of their size, business sector or location – 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.

In 2021/22, HMRC returned arrears of almost £70,000 to 661 workers in Wales. Since 2015, the Government has ordered employers to repay over £100 million to over 1 million workers.