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registered interest
date	28/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to introduce a visa scheme to allow employers to recruit overseas workers to customer-facing roles.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	23310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions should be the first port of call for employers seeking to fill vacancies, rather than the Home Office.</p><p>On advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), the Government broadened the eligibility of Skilled Worker visas from graduate jobs only to include jobs skilled to RQF level 3 (roughly equivalent to A-levels) and lowered the salary threshold to £25,600 enabling employers to recruit in more customer facing roles than was possible under the previous immigration system.</p><p>Yet where a job needs only a short period of training or time to acquire the qualifications necessary the focus should be on recruiting from the domestic labour market, especially given the economic impact of the global pandemic means many may be looking for new employment or to change careers.</p><p>Immigration policy cannot be seen as an alternative to improving training and career pathways or tackling issues such as unattractive pay and working conditions for those undertaking customer-facing roles. Given this we will not be introducing a general migration route allowing employers to recruit at or near the minimum wage, with no work-based training requirements, including to such roles.</p><p>More broadly, the Government’s Plan for Jobs is helping people across the country retrain, build new skills and getting back into work as part of the UK’s recovery from COVID-19, with the Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Education and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy leading work on the overall UK labour market and skills.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/07/2021 15:19:18 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1337416

registered interest
date	16/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Manual Workers: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that unskilled labour vacancies are being filled since the UK left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	16942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions should be the first port of call for employers seeking to fill vacancies, rather than the Home Office.</p><p>We do not view any job as “unskilled”, the difference is how long it takes to train for or gain the necessary qualifications for it. Where a job needs only a short period of training or time to acquire the qualifications necessary the focus should be on recruiting from the domestic labour market, especially given the economic impact of the global pandemic means many may be looking for new employment or to change careers.</p><p>Immigration policy cannot be seen as an alternative to improving training and career pathways or tackling issues such as unattractive pay and working conditions. Given this we will not be introducing a general migration route allowing employers to recruit at or near the minimum wage, with no work-based training requirements.</p><p>More broadly, the Government’s Plan for Jobs is helping people across the country retrain, build new skills and getting back into work as part of the UK’s recovery from COVID-19, with the Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Education and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy leading work on the overall UK labour market and skills.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/06/2021 12:13:53 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1217609

registered interest
date	24/06/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Clothing: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with representatives from Amazon on the sale of Blue Lives Murder merchandise in the UK; and what steps she is taking to prevent the sale of such merchandise.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	64316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>Unless prohibited by UK legislation, decisions around the sale of merchandise are for retailers to make. The Home Secretary and I are appalled at the existence of the Blue Lives Murder merchandise and strongly support the Police Federation’s campaign to encourage retailers to stop selling it.</p><p> </p><p>Our remarkable police courageously serve our country and keep us safe - they deserve our utmost respect and support.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/07/2020 09:24:11 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1176397

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had with (a) the Premier League, (b) the English Football League and (c) other national sports governing bodies on ensuring that the new immigration system meets the requirements of elite sports.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	12987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>Home Office officials are in regular contact with each of the recognised Sports Governing Bodies, annually reviewing the criteria that applies to each sport. This process of review ensures we strike the right balance between enabling top level international sportspeople to come to the UK, whilst protecting opportunities for resident sportspeople.</p><p>The Home Office approved Sports Governing Bodies are listed at Appendix M of the Immigration Rules: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-m-sports-governing-bodies" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-m-sports-governing-bodies</a>.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 12/02/2020 16:15:43 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1140867

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Synthetic Cannabinoids: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the penalties incurred for (a) possession and (b) supply and production of synthetic cannabinoids.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	280381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>Synthetic cannabinoids are controlled as Class B drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. There is a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine, or both for possession of a Class B drug and 14 years’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine, or both, for the supply and production of a Class B drug.</p><p>There was a total of 281 convictions for the principal offence of possession of synthetic cannabinoids in 2018, up from 71 convictions in 2017 and no convictions in 2016. For the principal offences of either supply, possession with intent to supply or production of synthetic cannabinoids there were 18 convictions in 2018, up from 4 convictions in 2017 and 4 convictions in 2016.</p><p>The Government has commissioned the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to provide an updated harms assessment on their previous reports on synthetic cannabinoids. The commission also seeks recommendations on whether the current classification under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 of synthetic cannabinoids is appropriate. The advice is due in summer 2020. The full commission has been published online on the gov.uk website. <br>The Government will await the ACMD’s further advice and recommendations</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/07/2019 16:00:51 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1137782

registered interest
date	09/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the operation of the Anti-knife Crime Community Fund in (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	275241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office anti-knife crime Community Fund provided support for community organisations for early intervention and prevention projects through awarding small grants in 2017-18 and 2018-19. In 2017-18 it funded 47 projects totalling £1million across England and Wales. It was increased to £1.5million in 2018/19 and supported 68 projects and initial assessments show that the projects have reached at least 50,000 children and young people. We are ensuring that the funding is used effectively, and Home Office officials have conducted a series of visits to projects in order to be satisfied about effective delivery. On 26 June, we launched the third year of the Fund for 2019-20 and the deadline for bids is 24 July.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/07/2019 15:23:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley