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155395

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	date	11/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Employment Agencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many complaints on employment agency practices were received by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	214212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The Employment Agency Standards (EAS) inspectorate received 675 complaints, which related to breaches of the Conduct of Employment Agency and Employment Business Regulations (2003), between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2014. Not all complaints received require a physical inspection in order to resolve them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>EAS sometimes receives additional complaints on employment agency practices which are outside of the scope of the legislation. EAS signposts these complainants to the most appropriate organisation to pursue that complaint.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 19/11/2014 16:12:53 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

155396

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Employment Agencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) inspections, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions were conducted by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	214216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The Employment Agency Standards (EAS) inspectorate carried out 130 visits to employment agencies between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2014. These are split into four categories:</p><p> </p><p>Visits not related to a specific complaint – 22</p><p> </p><p>Visits related to a specific complaint – 36</p><p> </p><p>Targeted visits relating to a specific sector or geographic area – 46</p><p> </p><p>Visits related to a specific complaint which included a full inspection – 26</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>During the same period, EAS brought seven prosecutions in the Magistrate’s Court, and in five of these obtained convictions against the individuals and companies involved.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>During this period EAS also brought proceedings at the Employment Tribunal, to prohibit two individuals from being involved in running or owning employment agencies or employment businesses. Both were successful with one individual being prohibited for a period of seven years and the other for 10 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 19/11/2014 16:11:47 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry