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Written question asked by Steve Reed (Labour) on Monday, 10 December 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 13 December 2018 (named day). It was answered by Caroline Nokes (Conservative) on Thursday, 13 December 2018 on behalf of the Home Office.

Migrant Workers: Databases

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times employers have used his Department's employer checking service to check an employee’s or potential employee’s immigration status in each year since that service was introduced.

Answer

The Employer Checking Service has received and processed the following right to work checks from employers since April 2012.

2012/13: 55, 978

2013/14: 54, 701

2014/15: 68, 165

2015/16: 68, 409

2016/17: 94, 247

2017/18: 95, 554

April to December 2018: 43,825

This information is provisional internal management information and subject to change. The Employer Checking Service has been in place since 2008. Prior to 2012, local records and information were held on the checks processed and not recorded on a central system.

In relation to how much funding the government has spent on promoting awareness of the Employer Checking Service, the information requested is not available in the format requested and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
200709
Session
2017-19
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Databases Migrant workers Vetting
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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