Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what circumstances a company found to have engaged in illegal activity may retain its licence to sponsor overseas workers; and what criteria are used to determine whether such a licence should be suspended or revoked.

The circumstances in which an organisation that has engaged in illegal activity may retain its sponsor licence, and the criteria used to determine whether a licence should be suspended or revoked, are set out in the relevant sponsor guidance: Workers and Temporary Workers: guidance for sponsors, Part 3: Sponsor duties and compliance. This guidance is available on GOV.UK at: Workers and Temporary Workers: guidance for sponsors part 3: sponsor duties and compliance - GOV.UK