Question follow-through · 8664
Pre-school Education: Living Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2024 to Question 4008 on Childcare: Recruitment, what steps his Department is taking to (a) monitor and (b) enforce the payment of the National Living Wage in the
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2024 to Question 4008 on Childcare: Recruitment, what steps his Department is taking to (a) monitor and (b) enforce the payment of the National Living Wage in the
15 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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17 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government is clear that anyone entitled to the minimum wage should receive it. Robust enforcement action is taken against employers who do not pay their staff correctly. HMRC enforces the minimum wage on behalf of DBT, and they investigate where they...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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