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Minimum Wage: Scotland

Asked by Wendy ChamberlainLiberal DemocratTreasuryTabled Answered 8 January 2026UIN 101006

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 11 December 2025 to Question 96736, how many HMRC National Minimum Wage inspections were conducted in Scotland in 2024/25; and how many of these were carried out in social care settings.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

Our data represents all closed inspections (‘investigations’). There were 220 closed inspections in Scotland in 2024/25. This data was published in the Supplementary data for the 2024/2025 National Minimum Wage Enforcement and Compliance Report (Table 6).

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-living-wage-and-national-minimum-wage-government-evidence-on-enforcement-and-compliance-2025

Of the 220 closed inspections, 6 were social care cases.

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