Work Experience: Minimum Wage
(asked on 30th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many successful prosecutions were made against employers for failing to pay the National Minimum Wage for internship roles in each year since 2010; and what were the details of those prosecutions.
Details of the employers prosecuted for National Minimum Wage offences up to the end of 2016/17 are included in Table 1 below and are also published in Annex C of the 2017 Government Evidence to the Low Pay Commission on compliance and enforcement. HMRC does not have any records of prosecutions in relation to interns.
Table 1: NMW Prosecutions, 2007/08 to 2016/17
| Name of employer | Trading Name | Area | Offence | Date |
1 | T Aguda | Rascals Day Nursery Ltd | Walthamstow | 31 (5) (a) | 28/08/2007 |
2 | Torbay Council |
| Torquay | 31 (5) (b) | 01/10/2007 |
3 | R Singh | Pound Mania | Nottingham | 31 (5) (b) | 30/04/2008 |
4 | David Jackson | Jackson’s Butchers | Sheffield | 31 (1); 31 (2); 31 (3); 31 (4). | 02/07/2008 |
5 | Pauline Smout | Jackson’s Butchers | Sheffield | 31 (1); 31 (2); 31 (3); 31 (4) | 02/07/2008 |
6 | Zaheer Ibrahim | The Jewel in the Crown | Nottingham | 31 (5) (b) | 21/07/2008 |
7 | Ahmed Yassine | The Pheonix Hotel | Rotherham | 31 (2); 31 (5) (b) | 13/02/2009 |
8 | B G Optical |
| Manchester | 31(1); 31(2); 31(3); 31(4); 31(5)(a); 31(5)(b) | 23/06/2010 |
9 | Widescope Security |
| London | 31(1); 31(5)(b) | 26/02/2013 |
10 | Amanda Barrett | Amanda’s Precious Bubbles Day Nursery Ltd | Birmingham | 31(1); 31(2) | 11/05/2016 |
11 | Richard Hunt | The Rock Hotel (Weymouth) Ltd | Weymouth | 31(5)(a); 31(5)(b) | 13/05/2016 |
12 | L.UK/Euro (Brighton) Ltd | 3D Telecon | Oldham | 31(1); 31(5)(a) | 04/08/2016 |
13 | Dida Brothers Car Wash |
| Southampton | 31(1); 31(2) | 08/12/2016 |
Source: BEIS/HMRC enforcement data