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Official guidance
National Minimum Wage Manual

NMWM16000 · Disclosure of information

  • NMWM16010 · Introduction
  • NMWM16020 · Duty of confidentiality and the declaration of confidentiality
  • NMWM16030 · Lawful authority to disclose information
  • NMWM16040 · Sanction for unlawful disclosure
  • NMWM16050 · Ownership of National Minimum Wage information
  • NMWM16060 · Exchange of information with other HM Revenue & Customs’ teams
  • NMWM16070 · Legal gateways: providing information to another government department or public authority, including local authorities
  • NMWM16080 · Legal gateways: request for information from another government department or public authority, including local authorities
  • NMWM16090 · Memorandum of Understanding
  • NMWM16100 · No legal gateway: lawful disclosure in the public interest
  • NMWM16105 · Public interest disclosures for public health or public safety
  • NMWM16110 · Data Protection Act 1998
  • NMWM16120 · Data Protection Act: issues relevant to HM Revenue & Customs’ disclosures
  • NMWM16130 · Data Protection Act: requests for information
  • NMWM16140 · Data Protection Act: obtaining information from third parties (such as Local Authorities)
  • NMWM16160 · Data Protection Act: requests from third parties for HM Revenue & Customs’ National Minimum Wage information
  • NMWM16170 · Freedom of Information
  • NMWM16180 · Freedom of Information: requests for information
  • NMWM16190 · Human Rights Act 1998
  • NMWM16200 · Human Rights Act: information sharing provisions
  • NMWM16210 · Department for Business and Trade
  • NMWM16215 · Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate and the Department of Employment and Learning
  • NMWM16220 · Home Office and its associated organisations including the police
  • NMWM16225 · Home Office Immigration Enforcement (previously UK Border Agency)
  • NMWM16230 · Department for Work and Pensions
  • NMWM16240 · Child Support Agency and the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
  • NMWM16250 · Health and Safety Executive
  • NMWM16260 · Fair Work Agency for Gangmaster's licensing
  • NMWM16270 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Scottish and Northern Irish equivalents
  • NMWM16280 · Insolvency Service Disqualification Unit, liquidators, administrators and administrative receivers
  • NMWM16290 · Insolvency Service Disqualification Unit: what can be disclosed
  • NMWM16300 · External solicitors acting for the Department for Business and Trade
  • NMWM16310 · Orders from tribunal (no direct HM Revenue & Customs’ involvement)
  • NMWM16312 · NMW Officer ordered to attend a tribunal (no direct HM Revenue & Customs’ involvement)
  • NMWM16314 · Providing documentation to a tribunal (no direct HM Revenue & Customs’ involvement)
  • NMWM16316 · Providing information as a witness to a tribunal (no direct HM Revenue & Customs’ involvement)
  • NMWM16320 · Civil and criminal proceedings (no direct HM Revenue & Customs’ involvement)
  • NMWM16330 · Orders from court: witness summonses and subpoenas (witness citations in Scotland)
  • NMWM16340 · Orders from court: requests for information not binding on the Crown
  • NMWM16350 · Lawful disclosure: disclosure with the customer’s consent (including for agents and personal representatives)
  • NMWM16360 · Procedure to obtain consent: written or verbal
  • NMWM16370 · Procedure to obtain consent at interview with customer and third party
  • NMWM16380 · Disclosure of customer information in correspondence with Members of Parliament (MP, MSP, AM, MEP etc.)
  • NMWM16390 · Telephone enquiries received from Members of Parliament
  • NMWM16400 · Protecting confidentiality when obtaining information from third parties
  • NMWM16410 · Protecting confidentiality when on the telephone
  • NMWM16420 · Bogus telephone calls
  • NMWM16430 · Criminal Records Bureau, Disclosure Scotland and police service Northern Ireland
  • NMWM16440 · Power of attorney
  • NMWM16460 · The Parliamentary Ombudsman
  • NMWM16470 · Charity Commission
  • NMWM16500 · Revenue & Customs Prosecution Office (RCPO)
  • NMWM16510 · Verifying information already held
  • NMWM16520 · Obtaining consent where the customer is deceased or if a company is insolvent or has been dissolved
  1. Disclosure of information: contents
  2. Disclosure of information: Insolvency Service Disqualification Unit: what can be disclosed

NMWM16290 | Disclosure of information: Insolvency Service Disqualification Unit: what can be disclosed

From HM Revenue & Customs · National Minimum Wage Manual

Information must only be disclosed to the Insolvency Service Disqualification Unit under certain circumstances (NMWM16280). Disclosure must be limited to information about the company that it would ordinarily be aware of. For example:

  • issue of Notice of Underpayment;

  • correspondence between HM Revenue & Customs (NMWM02030) and the company;

  • reports of meetings attended;

  • details of payments made by the company.

It is not appropriate to disclose:

  • internal HM Revenue & Customs memos which the company would not be aware of;

  • information about the director’s personal affairs;

  • information provided by workers and other third parties.

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