PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Minimum Wage (28 October 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many employers in (a) Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency, (b) the London Borough of Hackney, (c) London and (d) England that have broken the national minimum wage law have been (i) prosecuted and (ii) named since the revision to the national minimum wage law came into effect on 1 October 2013.

Asked by:
Ms Diane Abbott (Labour)

The Government has named 30 employers under the revised Naming and Shaming. Between them they owed workers a total of over £50,000 in arrears and have been charged financial penalties totalling over £24,000. Details of these employers can be found on the original press notices (28 February 2014 and 8 June 2014), including the town in which the employer is based. However, these organisations may employ staff or have offices or other operations in other geographical locations.

No employers have been prosecuted under the National Minimum Wage Act since October 2013.

Answered by:
Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat)
4 November 2014