Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of employers that were included on a National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme list published since January 2011 have not paid arrears to affected employees.

The Government only names once HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has finished its investigations and once employers have repaid arrears to workers and paid the penalty to government.

Where there has been an underpayment, HMRC will instruct the employer to pay workers the arrears owed, and a penalty of up to 200% of arrears. In 2021/22, HMRC concluded over 2,800 minimum wage investigations and returned more than £16.3m in arrears to over 120,000 workers. HMRC issued 696 fines totalling £13.2m to businesses who had failed to pay the minimum wage.