Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in (a) Warrington and (b) the North West were (i) investigated and (ii) prosecuted for failure to pay the national minimum wage in the last year for which figures are available.

The Government does not record information on the number of National Minimum Wage investigations or prosecutions by region, local authority or parliamentary constituency.

Employers may register trading addresses which differ from where they undertake business and can operate at multiple sites across the country. Therefore it is not always possible to identify a particular area where national minimum wage non-compliance has occurred.