Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of employer enquiries to the Employer Checking Service resulted in a response confirming that the subject of the enquiry had the right to work in each of the last five years.

The proportion of checks to the Employer Checking Service resulting in a response confirming that the subject of the enquiry had the right to work, by calendar year are as below:

2011 41.2%

2012 43.8%

2013 51.1%

2014 56.0%

2015 58.2%

2016 (to date) 67.3%