Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the number of individuals with section 3C leave under the Immigration Act 1971 whose (a) employment has been (i) terminated or (ii) refused and (b) benefit claim has been (i) suspended or (ii) rejected in the last year as a result of incorrect application of rules on immigration status; and what steps she is taking to reduce these numbers.

Employers are not obliged to tell the Home Office when they terminate or refuse employment, and there are many reasons why a claim to benefits may be suspended or rejected.

Consequently, it is not possible to provide the estimates requested.