To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make it his policy to require employers to indicate on the wage slips of their employees the rate then applying of the national minimum wage; and if he will make a statement. (96625)

It was decided after wide public consultation on the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 that there should be no requirement for employers to state the national minimum wage on payslips. The consultation concluded that the measure would be unduly burdensome on business.