Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 906871

Living Wage and Minimum Wage

Tabled: 4 December 2025
Answered: 12 December 2025
Named Day

Question

Liz Twist

LabourBlaydon and Consett

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress he has made with Cabinet colleagues on helping reduce the number of employers underpaying the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage.

Answer

Kate Dearden
As a Government we are clear: everyone must get the pay they are entitled to.In 2024/25, HMRC identified £5.8 million owed to 25,000 workers and issued 750 penalties worth £4.2 million to employers.We are going further- setting up the Fair Work Agency to ...

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