Asylum

(asked on 5th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants granted permission to work were employed in Government Departments in 2017.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 15th January 2018

Asylum seekers are not allowed to work in the UK unless their claim has been outstanding for at least 12 months through no fault of their own. Those who are granted permission to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List, which can be found in the Immigration Rules Appendix K: shortage occupation list (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-k-shortage-occupation-list)

The data requested on the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work is only held on paper case files or within the notes sections of the Home Office's databases. Therefore the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work who are employed in other Government Departments is not aggregated on a national level nor is it held in a reportable format.

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