Written question asked by Duke of Montrose (Conservative), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord Henley (Conservative) on Monday, 6 June 2011.

Gangmasters

Question: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in each of the past three years, how many applications for a gangmaster licence have been for businesses with (a) 1–2 employees, (b) 3–5 employees, (c) 6–15 employees, and (d) over 16 employees.

Answer

The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) does not hold figures for the number of workers employed by licence holders as they do not use this information when processing licence applications. However, the GLA does hold information on the size of the financial turnover in the regulated sectors for each business that holds a gangmasters licence as it is this that determines the level of the licence fee charged. There are four licence fee bands:

Annual Turnover in the GLA regulated sector	Fee Band
£10 million or more	A
From £5 million to less than £10 million	B
From £1 million to less than £5 million	C
Less than £1 million	D

For each of those bands, for each of the past three financial years, the number of licence holders (consisting of new and renewal applications) is:

	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
A	13	18	17
B	22	16	20
C	172	164	152
D	1,083	1,042	979

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Type: Written question
Reference: 9385; 728 c43WA
Session: 2010-12
Related items: Gangmasters
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Written questions
House of Lords
Subjects: Licensing Gangmasters
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Gangmasters

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