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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2020 to Question 3164 on Employment Tribunals Service: Fines, how many individual, previously unpaid awards are represented by (a) the total sum of £1,343,941.96 recovered as a result of only issuing a warning letter, and (b) the total sum of £1,222,472.23 recovered as a result of issuing both a warning letter and a penalty notice; and how many of the 2,067 warning letters and 1,302 penalty notices were issued in (i) 2016-17 (ii) 2017-18 (iii) 2018-19 and (iv) 2019-20 to date.

Under this government a total of £2,566,414.19 in previously unpaid awards has been secured for workers since April 2016. A total of £1,343,941.96 was recovered for 231 workers after only issuing a warning notice. A total of £1,222,472.23 was recovered for 225 workers after issuing a penalty notice.

Of the 2,067 warning letters and 1,302 penalty notices issued:

(i) 244 warning notices and 124 penalty notices were issued in 2016-17;

(ii) 390 warning notices and 277 penalty notices were issued in 2017-18;

(iii) 736 warning notices and 471 penalty notices were issued in 2018-19 and

(iv) 697 warning notices and 430 penalty notices have been issued in 2019-20 to date.