Detention Centres: Minimum Wage
(asked on 28th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the merits of revising policies which exempt detention centres from minimum wage legislation.
This question was answered on 4th April 2019
Individuals detained in immigration removal centres are exempt from national minimum wage requirements by virtue of section 153A of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and section 45B of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. There are no current plans to change the law.