Cordant Group has lost its bid to continue deducting travel expenses from minimum wage payments to workers under a High Court decision issued last month. Regulations preventing the use of tax-free travel and subsistence expenses from counting towards national minimum wage pay took effect on 1 January as planned, with High Court judge, Mr Justice Kenneth Parker, dismissing a judicial review action brought against business secretary Vince Cable by the multi-sector Cordant Group. In his decision, Mr Justice Parker said: “I have reached the firm conclusion É that this challenge was an attack on the economic merits of regulatory reform affecting the labour market in the guise of a common law and legal equity case.” (See News analysis)