PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Minimum Wage (14 July 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunals have taken place relating to under-payment of the minimum wage in (a) 2013-14 and (b) each of the previous five financial years; and how many such tribunals found in favour of the employee.

Asked by:
Emily Thornberry (Labour)

The National Minimum Wage jurisdiction relates to suffering a detriment and or/dismissal related to failure to pay the minimum wage or allow access to records. The data is given in the table below. This information is published in Tribunals Statistics Quarterly, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2014

Employment Tribunals involving National Minimum Wage, 2009/10 to 2013/14
	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14
Total Employment Tribunals disposed	112,364	122,792	110,769	107,420	148,387
Claims involving the National Minimum Wage jurisdiction	414	599	520	496	381
Proportion of National Minimum Wage claims that were successful at hearing	12%	13%	15%	15%	17%

Answered by:
Shailesh Vara (Conservative)
21 July 2014