Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to respond to the recommendations by the Low Pay Commission made in the National Minimum Wage: Low Pay Commission Report, Spring 2016, published in March 2016.

The Government published its response accepting all the Low Pay Commission’s rate recommendations on 14 March 2016.

The Government is considering the Low Pay Commission’s non-rate recommendations. On the recommendation relating to a formal public protocol to handle third party whistleblowing on breaches of the National Minimum Wage, a trial is underway involving Citizens Advice Bureaux acting as a third party on behalf of complainants. The trial will be evaluated before a decision is taken on any wider roll-out.