§ Mr. Roy HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many workplaces were visited, and how many of them were found to be illegally underpaying, for the latest available year by the wages inspectorate divisions covering Wales.
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§ Mr. NichollsIn 1988, 15 workplaces were visited for advisory purposes and 1,014 were visited for the purposes of checking pay. A total of 446 were found to have underpaid one or more workers. However, this cannot be taken as representing the general level of non-compliance with wages council orders because the wages inspectorate target checks by visit on those workplaces thought more likely to underpay workers.