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Lord Londesborough (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 December 2025

Debate

Fair Work Agency: Small and Micro Businesses

Contribution

My Lords, the Minister just mentioned that as many as 400,000 workers are being paid under the minimum wage and another 900,000 are having their holiday pay withheld. Given the enormity of these numbers, how will the FWA be resourced to deal with the scale of its many responsibilities, particularly the delivery of an agile, fully-functioning and accurate database that has to cover more than 5 million businesses and 33 million workers to ensure that law-abiding businesses, particularly small and micro ones, are not unfairly targeted or indeed distracted from delivering growth?

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