Small Businesses: Minimum Wage

(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment HMRC has made of the impact of its National Minimum Wage compliance campaigns on small and micro-businesses; and what steps HMRC takes to ensure compliance communications are proportionate and targeted towards employers at risk of non-compliance.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General
This question was answered on 7th September 2026

Further details of HMRC’s activity in this area can be read within the annual reports of the Government’s evidence on enforcement and compliance of the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage – National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage: enforcement and compliance - GOV.UK

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