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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, into how many languages the leaflets produced for migrant workers, resulting from recommendations from the Operation Gangmaster, have been translated.

Asked by

David Drew (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

3 November 2004

For answer on

18 November 2004

Answered on

18 November 2004

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department into how many languages the leaflets produced for migrant workers, resulting from recommendations from the Operation Gangmaster, have been translated. [196757] Mr. Browne: Operation Gangmaster is a Government initiative designed to bring different Departments and agencies together to tackle abuses by rogue labour providers. This initiative has not produced any specific recommendations to translate information for migrant workers. However, the Government have been active in making translated information available and has had regard to recommendations previously made on this issue by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, of which my hon. Friend is a member. Earlier this year, the Home Office produced a leaflet and guidance notes for applicants to the accession worker registration scheme in relevant languages. These outlined the details of the scheme and gave advice to workers rights. The Trades Union Congress also produced their own leaflet on workers' rights and the Home Office met the cost of producing translations of this leaflet in Hungarian, Estonian, Czech, Latvian, Slovak and Polish. In response to specific concerns about the mistreatment of workers, the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have worked with the Portuguese community and the TUC to produce leaflets explaining the rights of workers in Portuguese. The DTI has also worked with the Polish and Lithuanian Governments to produce bilingual leaflets on employment rights for their nationals. These were launched in June.

Date

18 November 2004

Reference

196757; 426 c2063-4W;426 c2069-70W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has access to the data collated from the ACU1 forms, ACU2 forms and 46ACU forms that are returned to the Inland Revenue Agricultural Compliance Unit by those using the services of a gangmaster or employment agency.

Asked by

Jim Sheridan (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

1 November 2004

Reference

426 c116W; 192596

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the data collated from the ACU1 and ACU2 forms returned to the Inland Revenue Agricultural Compliance Unit by those using the services of a gangmaster or employment agency will be made available to the Gangmasters Licensing Authority...

Asked by

Jim Sheridan (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 October 2004

Reference

425 c959W; 192581

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was (a) the total number of 46 ACU forms returned to the Inland Revenue Agricultural Compliance Unit during the last three financial years, (b) the total number of ACU 2 forms returned to the Inland Revenue Agricultural Compliance Unit during the last...

Asked by

Jim Sheridan (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

14 October 2004

For answer on

21 October 2004

Answered on

21 October 2004

Jim Sheridan: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was (a) the total number of 46ACU forms returned to the Inland Revenue Agricultural Compliance Unit during the last three financial years, (b) the total number of ACU2 forms returned to the Inland Revenue Agricultural Compliance Unit during the last three full financial years, (c) the total amount of payments made to gangmasters and employment agencies as declared by the users of gang labour and employment agency labour on their returned 46ACU forms for each of the last three financial years and (d) the (i) estimated amount of tax and national insurance contributions that should have been paid and (ii) the actual amount of tax and national insurance contributions paid by the gangmasters and employment agencies detailed in the 46ACU forms and the ACU2 forms returned to the Inland Revenue Agricultural Compliance Unit during the last three financial years. [192583] Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is as follows: (a) In the year ended 5 April 2004, approximately 800 completed forms 46ACU were returned to the Inland Revenue. Details are not immediately available for earlier years and it would be disproportionately costly to obtain this information. (b) The completion and return of forms ACU2 is voluntary. The Inland Revenue do not have a record of the total number of forms returned for the year ended 5 April 2004, but as they are sent with forms 46ACU they estimate it to be at least 800. Details are not immediately available for earlier years and it would be disproportionately costly to obtain this information. (c) The totals of payments shown on forms 46ACU were £184.2 million for 2002-03 and £243.8 million for 2003-04. Details are not available for 2001-02. (d) It would be disproportionately costly to provide this information.

Date

21 October 2004

Reference

425 c885W; 192583

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will break down the information submitted on the ACU1 forms returned to the Inland Revenue Agricultural Compliance Unit in each of the last three financial years by (a) the number of gangmasters and employment agencies engaged...

Asked by

Jim Sheridan (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 October 2004

Reference

425 c697W; 192579;192580

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the data collated from the 46 ACU forms that are returned to the Inland Revenue Agricultural Compliance Unit by those using the services of a gangmaster or employment agency will be made available to the Gangmasters Licensing Authority that is to be...

Asked by

Jim Sheridan (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 October 2004

Reference

425 c579W; 192582

House

House of Commons

Gangmasters: follow up. Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee twelfth special report - government reply to Committee's eighth report session 2003/04 (HC 455).

Type

House of Commons papers; Select Committee reports (Government responses); Parliamentary committees

Committee

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Notes

Received 14.09.04

Date

8 September 2004

Reference

HC 1035 2003/04

House

House of Commons

Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill 2003/04

Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill. Lords Committee stage. Bill reported without amendment (formal). Lords Report stage (formal).

Department

Committee of the Whole House (HL)

Type

Legislative formal proceedings

Date

30 June 2004

Reference

663 c350

House

House of Lords

Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill 2003/04

Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

Lead member

Lord Carter

Answering member

Lord Rooker

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Debates on bills

Date

16 June 2004

Reference

662 c839-58

House

House of Lords

Constitution Select Committee (HL) seventh report on the Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill.

Type

Select Committee reports; House of Lords papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Constitution Committee

Notes

Received 15.06.2004

Date

9 June 2004

Reference

HL 108 2003/04

House

House of Lords

Rep* and 3R:Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill 2003/04

Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill. Report stage (formal). Third reading debate. Agreed to on question and passed.

Lead member

Jim Sheridan

Answering member

Alun Michael

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Debates on bills

Date

21 May 2004

Reference

421 c1210-43

House

House of Commons

Gangmasters: follow up. Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee eighth report with proceedings, evidence (HC 455 i-ii not printed separately) and appendices.

Type

Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Notes

Received 20.05.04

Date

12 May 2004

Reference

HC 455 2003/04

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what checks are made on the national insurance numbers used by employment agencies and gang-masters; what action is taken if a non-valid national insurance number is being used for an individual employed by an agency or a gangmaster; and if he will make...

Asked by

Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 May 2004

Reference

420 c1739W; 171050

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the activities of gangmasters employing illegal workers. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Mark Simmonds (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

25 February 2004

For answer on

28 April 2004

Answered on

28 April 2004

Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps his Department is taking to monitor the activities of gangmasters employing illegal workers. [157578] Mr. Browne: All employers in the United Kingdom are subject to the requirements of section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, the law on preventing illegal working. Any employer who is found to be employing an illegal worker and acting in contravention of their legal obligations under section 8 may face the possibility of a criminal charge and prosecution. On 16 March we announced changes, via secondary legislation, to strengthen the security of the document checks employers must carry out on prospective employees under section 8 to establish a statutory defence from prosecution. The changes will make it easier for compliant employers to ensure that their workforce can work in the UK, and for the Immigration Service to identify and prosecute the small minority of non-compliant employers who knowingly or negligently employ illegal workers. The United Kingdom Immigration Service (UKIS) is responsible for monitoring and tackling illegal migrant working, and conducts regular enforcement and educational visits to employers on section 8. UKIS adopts an intelligence led approach to carrying out illegal working enforcement operations relating to gangmasters, as it does to employers in other sectors. UKIS are fully involved in regional Operation Gangmaster and more generally have invested greater effort in illegal working enforcement activity, including where agricultural labour providers are concerned. In terms of overall illegal working enforcement activity across all commercial sectors in the United Kingdom, there were 446 UKIS operations in 2003. In the first nine months of 2003, UKIS reported carrying out 16 operations specifically aimed at farms and packhouses where labour providers were involved. By the beginning of 2004, UKIS had significantly increased activity in this area. In the four-month period from the beginning of November 2003 to the end of February 2004 UKIS reported carrying out 18 enforcement operations at farms and packhouses where labour providers were involved. These operations led to the removal of over a 100 immigration offenders. A further 11 operations involving labour providers are also scheduled or being planned. Earlier this month, two major investigations involving the police supported by UKIS resulted in the conviction of gangmasters for very serious criminal offences. In March, six labour providers with the company Ultimate Source were convicted at Kings Lynn Crown court of various offences in connection with the supply of illegal workers. On 16 March, the labour provider and his son were found guilty of charges including conspiracy to defraud and facilitating the entry of illegal immigrants into the UK. Both have been sentenced to seven years imprisonment. The Government are also working closely with my hon. Friend, the Member for West Renfrewshire (Jim Sheridan) to ensure that the Gangmasters Bill will achieve its objectives and introduce a licensing scheme which we can support. The Government have suggested a number of amendments to enhance the Bill and with those changes we believe it will significantly strengthen our attempts to curb the exploitative activities of gangmasters.

Date

28 April 2004

Reference

157578; 420 c1104-5W

House

House of Commons

Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill

Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill. Committee stage first sitting. Sittings motion agreed to. Clauses 1 to 5 disagreed to. Clause 6 as amended agreed to. New clauses considered. Schedule disagreed to. New schedules considered. Title amended. Bill as amended to be reported (Bill 98 2003/04).

Type

Debates on bills; Public Bill Committee proceedings

Date

28 April 2004

Reference

SCC

House

House of Commons

Leader of the House of Commons

Member

Lord Hain (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

25 March 2004

Reference

419 c1065-6

House

House of Commons

Leader of the House of Commons

Supplementary business question on need for legislation to regulate gangmasters.

Member

Jim Sheridan (Labour)

Type

Business questions

Date

25 March 2004

Reference

419 c1065-6

House

House of Commons

Gangmasters: follow up. Minutes of evidence 23 March 2004. (Printed in HC 455)

Type

House of Commons papers; Select Committee oral evidence; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Date

23 March 2004

Reference

HC 455-ii 2003/04

House

House of Commons

Gangmasters: follow up. Memoranda in the form of evidence laid before the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee.

Type

Select Committee written evidence; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Date

16 March 2004

House

House of Commons

Gangmasters: follow up. Minutes of evidence 16 March 2004. (Printed in HC 455)

Type

House of Commons papers; Select Committee oral evidence; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Date

16 March 2004

Reference

HC 455-i 2003/04

House

House of Commons

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