HC Deb 07 April 1989 vol 150 c317W
Mrs Golding

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the excuses given by employers in the midlands who were discovered in 1988 to have been paying wages below the statutory minimum.

Mr. Nicholls

Specific information could be provided only at disproportionate cost, but such underpayment as occurs can often be attributed to ignorance or inadvertance.

Mrs. Golding

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the names and addresses of those employers in the midlands who on check in 1988 were found to be paying wages below the statutory minimum.

Mr. Nicholls

No. The inspectorate treats all its inquiries and investigations as confidential and the results are disclosed only to those involved.