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

Jan. 31 2024

Source Page: Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Systems-wide evaluation feasibility reports
Document: Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Systems-wide evaluation: Feasibility study (PDF)

Found: (Local authority representative) 18 Housing shortages and high prices in the private rented sector


Written Question
Undocumented Migrants: Private Rented Housing
Tuesday 16th January 2024

Asked by: Alison Thewliss (Scottish National Party - Glasgow Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data his Department holds on the number of people fined under section (a) 23(2) and (b) 25(4) of the Immigration Act 2014 for each year since the Act came into force.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

The link to the transparency data can be found here, and covers the period 2016 to September 2023: Immigration Enforcement data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Right to Work statistics can be found on tab CP02 and Right to Rent statistics can be found on tab CP03.

The data for 2023 only includes the published data covering the period January to September.

The information within the transparency data refers to the total numbers of entities who have received a civil penalty, rather than “the number of people fined”. For employment, this could mean a limited company, a sole trader, or a franchise. For renting, an entity could include a landlord or a letting agency.

It is possible that some entities have been fined on more than one occasion.

Data prior to 2016 does not exist in the same reportable format.


Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Home Office

Jan. 11 2024

Source Page: Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill: supporting evidence
Document: (webpage)

Found: Authorities very keen to ensure all migrants are registered.


Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)
External Affairs Directorate
Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate

Dec. 15 2023

Source Page: Asylum seekers - extending the right to work: evaluation, analysis, and policy options
Document: Extending the Right to Work to Asylum Seekers in Scotland: evaluation, analysis, and policy options (PDF)

Found: latter suggestion has been refuted as failing to under stand the circumstances or motivations of undocumented


Written Question
Undocumented Migrants: Private Rented Housing
Wednesday 20th September 2023

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many landlords were fined for allowing unauthorised migrants to rent their properties in 2022.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The information requested can be found in tab CP03 of Immigration Enforcement data: Q2 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note the figures shown in the data are for penalties levied at the initial decision stage, which may be cancelled at the objection or appeal stage.


Select Committee
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Trent University, and Nottingham Trent University
HRW0003 - Human Rights at Work

Written Evidence Jul. 20 2023

Inquiry: Human Rights at Work
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: rolled out to tackle exploitation and to drive up standards funded by registration fees in line with private


Select Committee
Shelter
BPI0019 - Benefit levels in the UK

Written Evidence May. 24 2023

Inquiry: Benefit levels in the UK
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: The cost of newly advertised private rented homes appears to have grown even faster than official


Deposited Papers

Feb. 15 2023

Source Page: Windrush Lessons Learned Review: documents relating to Recommendation 7: I. Developing an evaluation strategy for the compliant environment: Review of internal data and processes. Home Office Analysis and Insight. 73p. II. A review of external evidence of the compliant environment: Literature synthesis of external evidence and best use of international examples. 34p. III. Overarching Equality Impact Assessment [EIA] of the compliant environment. 48p. IV. An evaluation of the Right to Rent scheme. 81p. V. Letter from Lord Murray to Diana Johnson MP regarding publication of the above documents. 2p.
Document: External_Review_Literature_synthesis_and_international_comparison.pdf (PDF)

Found: • First controls of migrants’ access to social housing assistance introd uced in the Housing Act


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Inquiry into Race Inequality in Scotland - Tue 07 Feb 2023

Mentions:
1: None We have repeatedly had cases where women have been turned away, whether they are refugees or migrants - Speech Link
2: Hamilton, Rachael (Con - Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) Why do Ukrainian refugees who have come to Scotland to settle find it hard to access social and rented - Speech Link
3: None Huge companies—private interests—are making billions of pounds from the UK asylum accommodation system - Speech Link
4: None However, some of them were undocumented, so they did not want to report it. - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

Jan. 26 2023

Source Page: Role and remit review of ICIBI discontinued
Document: Windrush Lessons Learned Review (PDF)

Found: West Indian migrants became victims of Britain’s chronic post-war housing shortages (investment in housing