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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press release published by her Department on 24 April 2023, what steps she is taking to ensure that businesses operating on remote platform based models carry out adequate checks on their users.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press release published by her Department on 24 April 2023, what steps she is taking to ensure that businesses operating on remote platform based models carry out adequate checks on their users.
The Home Office does not have an estimate of the number of individuals working illegally specifically on app-based work platforms.
Employers are required to undertake right to work checks on any prospective employee to confirm their legal status. It is a criminal offence for employers to knowingly enter a contract of employment with an individual who does not have a right to work in the UK. Employers that have not conducted the correct checks can face a civil penalty of up to £20,000 per illegal worker and closure of their business.
Tackling illegal migration is a key Government priority, including illegal working. During the first quarter of 2023, a total of 1,303 Immigration Enforcement visits took place across the UK to identify illegal working.
The Home Office is working with all stakeholders, including law enforcement partners to drive collaboration on tackling illegal working. This includes platform-based business models to ensure compliant recruitment and on-boarding practices, whilst also maintaining protection of legitimate workers and those at risk of exploitation.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has for the number of people working illegally on app-based work platforms.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has for the number of people working illegally on app-based work platforms.
The Home Office does not have an estimate of the number of individuals working illegally specifically on app-based work platforms.
Employers are required to undertake right to work checks on any prospective employee to confirm their legal status. It is a criminal offence for employers to knowingly enter a contract of employment with an individual who does not have a right to work in the UK. Employers that have not conducted the correct checks can face a civil penalty of up to £20,000 per illegal worker and closure of their business.
Tackling illegal migration is a key Government priority, including illegal working. During the first quarter of 2023, a total of 1,303 Immigration Enforcement visits took place across the UK to identify illegal working.
The Home Office is working with all stakeholders, including law enforcement partners to drive collaboration on tackling illegal working. This includes platform-based business models to ensure compliant recruitment and on-boarding practices, whilst also maintaining protection of legitimate workers and those at risk of exploitation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of active users of the Test and Trace App as of 15 December 2021; and how that number compares with that for (a) October and (b) November 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of active users of the Test and Trace App as of 15 December 2021; and how that number compares with that for (a) October and (b) November 2021.
The data is not held in the format requested as there is no single definition or measure for active users.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to update the NHS Covid App to allow differentiation between positive cases from the delta and omicron covid-19 variants.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to update the NHS Covid App to allow differentiation between positive cases from the delta and omicron covid-19 variants.
The National Health Service (NHS) COVID-19 app cannot currently provide differentiated advice between positive cases of the Delta and the Omicron variants. Where the app notifies an individual that they have had close contact with someone with COVID-19, it provides advice based on the information the user provides about their age and vaccination status. We are currently exploring whether the underlying technology the NHS COVID-19 app uses for contact tracing could enable the app to provide differentiated messages to users based on the probable COVID-19 variant of the person they were recently in close contact with.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many complaints have been raised relating to NHS Test and Trace failures to contact trace which were found to be caused by system problems.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many complaints have been raised relating to NHS Test and Trace failures to contact trace which were found to be caused by system problems.
The information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the performance of the online systems used by the NHS Test and Trace service.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the performance of the online systems used by the NHS Test and Trace service.
No such assessment has been made.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many IT problems have resulted in the NHS Test and Trace service being unable to carry out contact tracing since that system was established.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many IT problems have resulted in the NHS Test and Trace service being unable to carry out contact tracing since that system was established.
There have been no IT failures preventing contact tracing.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many contacts were traced by the NHS covid-19 contact tracing app during the trial of that app on the Isle of Wight.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many contacts were traced by the NHS covid-19 contact tracing app during the trial of that app on the Isle of Wight.
Over 50,000 people on the Isle of Wight downloaded and activated the app. Out of this number, on 18 June, 1,765 people had been notified that they had been in close contact with someone who had symptoms.
To ask the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether any brands of mobile electronic equipment have restrictions on accessing Parliamentary (a) software systems and (b) wifi.
To ask the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether any brands of mobile electronic equipment have restrictions on accessing Parliamentary (a) software systems and (b) wifi.
There are no restrictions in place for any brands of mobile electronic equipment when accessing Parliamentary software systems and wifi.