§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list for each wages council the number of employees affected and the number of establishments concerned.
§ Mr. GummerThe estimated number of employees and establishments in scope of each wages council is shown in the following table.
Wages councils—estimated numbers of employees and establishments in scope Wages council Employees Establishments Aerated Waters (E & W) 13,500 579 Aerated Waters (Scotland) 1,500 86 Boot and Shoe Repairing 7,100 2,543 Button Manufacturing 2,100 74 Clothing Manufacturing 252,800 9,320 Coffin Furniture and Cerement Making 300 23 Cotton Waste Reclamation 500 38 Flax and hemp 1,400 14 Fur 4,500 519 General Waste Materials Reclamation 19,300 2,007 Hairdressing Undertakings 135,600 33,290 Hat, Cap and Millinery 6,800 227 Lace Finishing 800 62 Laundry 33,700 1,116 Licensed Non-Residential 508,700 67,001 Licensed Residential and Restaurant 555,300 29,875 Linen and Cotton Goods 5,200 185 Made-up Textiles 4,800 358 Ostrich and Fancy Feather 1,400 36 Perambulator and Invalid Carriage 1,500 38 Retail Bespoke Tailoring 5,200 892 Retail Food 519,300 119,958 Retail Non-Food 512,800 104,867 Rope, Twine and Net 4,000 120 Sack and Bag 1,400 114 Toy Manufacturing 18,900 402 Unlicensed Place of Refreshment 116,400 17,527 All Wages Councils 2,734,800 391,271
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number of firms inspected by the Wages Inspectorate in the past three years and the number of establishments found to be contravening wages orders, the number of employees these contraventions affected and the amount of money underpaid.
§ Mr. GummerThe figures requested are given in the following table.
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1981 1982 1983 Establishment at which workers' pay was checked by visit 24,399 23,272 26,332 Establishments at which workers' pay was checked other than by visit 13,494 16,242 16,226 Establishments at which pay was checked by all methods 37,893 39,514 42,558 Establishments found to have underpaid one or more workers 10,074 9,269 9,842 Number of workers underpaid 25,482 20,406 20,832
1981 1982 1983 Arrears assessed £2,301,910 £2,286,893 £2,416,353