Question follow-through · 1930
National Minimum Wage Act 1998
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many workers have been impacted by enforcement actions related to breaches of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 in the last year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 27 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many workers have been impacted by enforcement actions related to breaches of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 in the last year.
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2026
Answer published
HMRC enforces National Minimum Wage (NMW) regulations on behalf of the Fair Work Agency (FWA), through both responding to worker complaints, and targeted enforcement activity.The latest enforcement and compliance report (2025) shows that in 2024-2025 HMRC...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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