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Immigration: National Insurance Numbers

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (James Plaskitt) has made the following Statement. I announced on 5 June that the DWP would introduce a ““right to work”” condition into Jobcentre Plus’s national insurance numbers allocation and decision-making process for employment-related applications from July. I can confirm that appropriate administrative arrangements are now in place making it a condition for the allocation of a NINO that there is a right to work. To further support this change, I intend to bring forward amendments to Regulation 9 of the Social Security (Crediting and Treatment of Contributions and National Insurance Numbers) Regulations 2001 to make explicit the evidence which must be produced to demonstrate that the ““right to work”” condition has been satisfied.