questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an estimate of the number of firms that have been prosecuted for not paying the national minimum wage in each of the last five years.
answerText: Criminal prosecution is reserved for the most serious cases involving deliberate underpayment or reckless pay practices. Criminal sanctions against companies can mean that workers end up waiting considerably longer for their lost earnings to be paid back....
heading: Minimum Wage: Prosecutions