PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Shipping: Pay (1 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Director of Labour Market Enforcement will have responsibility for enforcement of the (a) national minimum wage and (b) national living wage in the shipping industry.

Asked by:
Karl Turner (Independent)

The Director of Labour Market Enforcement will have a strategic remit that covers the whole of the labour market. It will therefore include direct employment as well as labour providers, and the whole of the spectrum of non-compliance, from accidental infringement to serious criminality.

The Director will produce an annual strategy which will set the strategic priorities for the work of three labour market enforcement bodies: the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate, the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage by HMRC.

Answered by:
Margot James (Conservative)
6 December 2016