HC Deb 08 March 1989 vol 148 c570W
Mr. John Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many employers were found to be illegally underpaying, and how many of them were prosecuted, in the latest available year by the wages inspectorate divisions covering the north-west.

Mr. Nicholls

The information is not available in the precise form requested because wages inspectorate statistics about compliance with wages orders are compiled on the basis of establishments rather than employers. In 1988, 869 establishments in the north-west were found to be underpaying. There were two prosecutions for underpaying.