Oral Evidence May. 21 2024
Inquiry: Fairness in the food supply chainFound: Sir Mark Spencer: Obviously this is a responsibility of the Home Office.
Asked by: Lord Sahota (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the care system, care employers, and immigrant care workers of the loss of employers’ visa sponsorship licences; and what advice they give to care workers whose employers have lost their visa sponsorship licence and cannot, therefore, sponsor the renewal of their visa.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Any decision to revoke a sponsor’s licence will only be done in circumstances where a sponsor has failed to meet the obligations and duties of being a sponsor such as ensuring workers are being paid the correct salary and given guaranteed work. Even then, this will only be where other action, such as an action plan to improve processes and compliance, would not be appropriate.
Displaced migrant workers are able to seek alternative employment providing they have a job offer from a Home Office approved sponsor and make a new application.
Asked by: Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat - St Albans)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2024 to Question 23314 on Migrant Workers: Hospitality Industry, if he will make it his policy to (a) collect and (b) publish data on certificates of sponsorship for the hospitality industry.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office publishes data on Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) used in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on CoS used by industry are published in table ‘CoS_D01’ of the Work Sponsorship detailed dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates up to the end of December 2023.
A CoS is considered used when the visa applicant has made an application which has also received an outcome.
Hospitality is not a term used by UK Visas and Immigration when classifying job roles for immigration purposes and there are no plans to use it to gather or publish data on Certificates of Sponsorship.
Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism entitled Thousands of care workers risk deportation after employers breach rules, published on 11 May 2024.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Government will carefully consider the evidence put forward by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The Home Office does not tolerate exploitation in the labour market and our systems are designed to ensure exploitative employers are unable to sponsor migrant workers. Any decision to revoke an employer’s licence will only be done in circumstances where they have failed to meet the obligations and duties such as ensuring workers are being paid the correct salary and given guaranteed work.
We are working hard across government and with the sector to support care workers who wish to seek alternative employment with a Home Office approved sponsor and remain in the UK.
Written Evidence May. 15 2024
Inquiry: Climate change and securityFound: Western fossil fuel companies have long engaged in climate denial and disinformation campaigns at home
Found: please contact: National Audit Office Press Office 157 –197 Buckingham Palace Road Victoria
Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) We as an office have supported the family as much as possible with food bank vouchers and by co-ordinating - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) I thank the Welsh Refugee Coalition, Migrant Voice and the Food Foundation for their suggestions and - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) We have shortages of nurses and of workers in other sectors and industries. - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) private life and the Hong Kong BNO route, the general expectation is that the person will return to their home - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) that grow crops for biofuels already receive an enhanced guaranteed price for the energy produced via Office - Speech Link
2: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) workers,“often their home, the caravan, is raised as an issue of acute distress to them.”One worker - Speech Link
3: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) It is about how the West German economy treated migrant workers in the 1980s. - Speech Link
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: The Home Office appears to have paused its work to revise the 2014 Modern Slavery Strategy and
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: international discourse, the archetypical victim of modern slavery was conceived as a vulnerable migrant