Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate: Prosecutions
(asked on 23rd January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many prosecutions have been brought by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate in each of the last six years.
The table below sets out the total number of successful prosecution cases brought by Employment Agency Standards (EAS) since 2010-11 and the number of defendants.
Year | Prosecution cases | Defendants |
2011/12 | - | - |
2012/13 | 4 | 7 |
2013/14 | 2 | 4 |
2014/15 | 2 | 3 |
2015/16 | - | - |
2016/17 | 1 | 2 |
EAS are currently investigating 11 cases (21 defendants) that may lead to prosecution proceedings. EAS publishes its prosecution figures in its Annual Reports.