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Select Committee
Work Rights Centre, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), and Rights Lab, University of Nottingham

Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024

Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: It is evident that the Home Office announced the policy change in December with very little engagement

Select Committee
Work Rights Centre, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), and Rights Lab, University of Nottingham

Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024

Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: It is evident that the Home Office announced the policy change in December with very little engagement

Select Committee
Work Rights Centre, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), and Rights Lab, University of Nottingham

Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024

Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: It is evident that the Home Office announced the policy change in December with very little engagement

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic Resilience
Document: Rapid evidence review: measuring social cohesion (PDF)

Found: For example, the 2019 Home Office Indicators of Integration includes markers such as the percentage

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic Resilience
Document: The Khan Review (PDF)

Found: In April 2023, the city was no longer considered a Prevent priority area by the Home Office, which meant

Scottish Government Publication (Progress report)
Children and Families Directorate
Early Learning and Childcare Directorate
Education Reform Directorate
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Health and Social Care Finance, Digital and Governance Directorate
Justice Directorate
Mental Health Directorate
Safer Communities Directorate
Social Security Directorate
Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
Ukraine Resettlement Directorate

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Scottish Government Initial Response to the Concluding Observations issued by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Document: Initial Response to the UN Committee’s Closing Observations (PDF)

Found: on an ‘informal exclusion’ or sent home to ‘cool -off’.

Written Question
Artificial Intelligence: Migrant Workers
Monday 25th March 2024

Asked by: Peter Kyle (Labour - Hove)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2024 to Question 17194 on Artificial Intelligence: Migrant Workers, when the new dedicated visa scheme will be operational.

Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The new Future Technology Research & Innovation (Government Authorised Exchange) visa scheme is expected to go live on 4 April 2024, which the Home Office announced in their Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules laid in Parliament on 14 March. This visa scheme will allow sponsored researchers and interns to come to the UK to work in eligible organisation in the areas of the Government’s five critical technologies (AI, engineering biology, future telecommunications, semiconductors, and quantum technologies).

Written Question
Care Workers: Visas
Monday 25th March 2024

Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the removal of (a) overseas and (b) senior care workers’ rights to bring dependants on main applicant flows for the health and social care visa.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

We expect social care visa volumes will remain resilient to removing the eligibility for new care and senior care workers to bring dependants. This is in the context of a strong global labour supply, possible changes in migrant behaviour in response, and that a proportion of recruits are estimated to already come without dependants. The Home Office has published estimates of the impact these changes might have on the number of people applying to work in the sector from outside the United Kingdom, which are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/legal-migration-statement-estimated-immigration-impacts

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Work and Pensions

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Flagship youth employment programme hits one million milestone
Document: review (PDF)

Found: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office,London.

Lords Chamber
Human Rights: Sportswashing - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) could be investing in and using UK-based sporting teams to sportswash their human rights record at home - Speech Link
2: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The 150 years during which the legacy of de Coubertin made its home in western Europe has shifted to - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It was reported that at least 6,500 migrant workers died during those 10 years of construction. - Speech Link