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Written question asked by Lord McCabe (Labour) on Friday, 7 October 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 11 October 2016. It was answered by Ben Gummer (Conservative) on Thursday, 13 October 2016 on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

Cabinet Office: Migrant Workers

Question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of staff employed by his Department are non-UK nationals.

Answer

All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules. Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.

More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. But there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
47408
Session
2016-17
Subjects
Migrant workers Cabinet Office
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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