Home Office written question – answered at on 13 December 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times employers have used his Department's employer checking service to check an employee’s or potential employee’s immigration status in each year since that service was introduced.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding the Government has spent on promoting awareness of the employer checking service among employers in each year since that service was created.
The Employer Checking Service has received and processed the following right to work checks from employers since April 2012.
2012/13: 55, 978
2013/14: 54, 701
2014/15: 68, 165
2015/16: 68, 409
2016/17: 94, 247
2017/18: 95, 554
April to December 2018: 43,825
This information is provisional internal management information and subject to change. The Employer Checking Service has been in place since 2008. Prior to 2012, local records and information were held on the checks processed and not recorded on a central system.
In relation to how much funding the government has spent on promoting awareness of the Employer Checking Service, the information requested is not available in the format requested and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
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