Jan. 30 2024
Source Page: Home Secretary underlines commitment to cut net migrationFound: Home Secretary underlines commitment to cut net migration
Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) Rather than hoovering up computer programmers, doctors, dentists and care workers from other countries - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Again, the reality is that we are more likely to be treated by a migrant than to be in the queue next - Speech Link
Written Evidence Sep. 06 2023
Inquiry: Human TraffickingFound: The care worker told the Home Office she paid a fee of £1,500 to an agent for finding them work.
Written Evidence May. 23 2024
Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)Found: people employed by the department: 1 in 4 Home Office staff does not meet the MIR of £29,000, 31,936
Correspondence Dec. 14 2023
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: Correspondence from the Home Secretary on net migration 04.12.23 Correspondence
Feb. 02 2024
Source Page: Building a New Scotland papers: downloadable versionsFound: Secretary,136 supported by a secretariat function within the Home Office.
Correspondence Dec. 06 2023
Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)Found: Letter from the Home Secretary regarding net migration, dated 4 December 2023 Correspondence
Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) Yes, I reassure the noble Lord that the Home Office works very closely with the Department of Health - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) The terrible truth is that many vulnerable care workers are more frightened of the Home Office than they - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) I reassure the noble Baroness that migrant workers are able to seek alternative employment in the event - Speech Link
4: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) The Home Office is aware that abuses exist. - Speech Link
5: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) The function that the Home Office can perform is to set the minimum floor for the sum that these workers - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) The improved processes and the increased number of Home Office officials working on this issue mean that - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) in 2010, but over the weekend it emerged that the Home Office had lost contact with an astonishing 85% - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) The Home Office engages with the devolved nations through the inter-ministerial group and recognises - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) I am a legal migrant, too. - Speech Link
5: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) I made it clear to the Home Office that my priority was the protection of women and girls. - Speech Link
Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has a strategy for migrant worker welfare.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Migrant workers have the same employment rights and protections as resident workers, as supported by the relevant departments, agencies, regulatory bodies and trades unions. In addition, the Home Office ensures the design of immigration routes has regard to migrant welfare including by: requiring sponsors of migrant workers to keep records of pay and compliance with sponsorship obligations, alongside requiring people to have a specific job and be paid an appropriate salary; enabling migrants to apply for jobs with other sponsors, to ensure they are not trapped; and, applying an English language requirement to help workers to integrate, which provides assurance that they will not be overly-reliant on their sponsors, are able to seek help if needed and understand their rights.