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1229414

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Pilot Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inspections the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority has undertaken on farms employing workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers pilot scheme since September 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	82000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>The responsibility for inspecting locations under the Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme (SAWS) sits with UK Visas and Immigration. The Gangmasters Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) accompany UK Visas and Immigration on their inspections to provide them with information, advice and guidance.</p><p>Concordia have engaged with 15 suppliers as part of the SAWS, all of whom are licenced by the GLAA. The GLAA’s public register lists the labour providers who are licensed including licence holders based outside the UK. Further information about the register can be found at: <a href="https://www.gla.gov.uk/our-impact/who-has-a-glaa-licence/" target="_blank">https://www.gla.gov.uk/our-impact/who-has-a-glaa-licence/</a></p><p>The GLAA also works with overseas labour providers to ensure licences are granted to those supplying workers to the UK, as required by section 5 of the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004, which sets out the territorial scope and application of the Act.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 81997 81998 question first answered 08/09/2020 15:42:48 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1229417

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Pilot Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Seasonal Agricultural Workers pilot scheme, whether the Written Statement of Employment Particulars must be translated by employers into the native language of the worker.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	82003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>With regard to the Honourable Members question about the number of workers in the Seasonal Workers Pilot who have made a request to their pilot operator to change their employer I refer him to the response I gave to his question of 17 July (76041).</p><p>The UK operates a national immigration system. We do not break down the distribution of pilot workers within UK by geographic region.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold data on the numbers of individual growers that have participated in the pilot. We also do not hold data on the number of pilot workers who left the UK before the end of their visa in a reportable format. This information is recorded and held by the Scheme Operators</p><p>All pilot workers are provided with a contract, setting out their terms of employment. This must be provided in their native language. As part of this contract, the scheme operators are required to ensure pilot workers receive at least the national minimum wage for every week of their employment. The mechanism for achieving this, be it guaranteed payment or guaranteed hours of employment, is at the discretion of the scheme operators.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 81994 81995 81996 82001 82002 question first answered 08/09/2020 16:16:21 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1229416

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Pilot Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether workers on the Seasonal Agricultural Workers pilot scheme are provided with a Written Statement of Employment Particulars guaranteeing them 35 hours or more work per week.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	82002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>With regard to the Honourable Members question about the number of workers in the Seasonal Workers Pilot who have made a request to their pilot operator to change their employer I refer him to the response I gave to his question of 17 July (76041).</p><p>The UK operates a national immigration system. We do not break down the distribution of pilot workers within UK by geographic region.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold data on the numbers of individual growers that have participated in the pilot. We also do not hold data on the number of pilot workers who left the UK before the end of their visa in a reportable format. This information is recorded and held by the Scheme Operators</p><p>All pilot workers are provided with a contract, setting out their terms of employment. This must be provided in their native language. As part of this contract, the scheme operators are required to ensure pilot workers receive at least the national minimum wage for every week of their employment. The mechanism for achieving this, be it guaranteed payment or guaranteed hours of employment, is at the discretion of the scheme operators.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 81994 81995 81996 82001 82003 question first answered 08/09/2020 16:16:21 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1229415

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Pilot Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many farms have participated in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers pilot scheme since September 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	82001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>With regard to the Honourable Members question about the number of workers in the Seasonal Workers Pilot who have made a request to their pilot operator to change their employer I refer him to the response I gave to his question of 17 July (76041).</p><p>The UK operates a national immigration system. We do not break down the distribution of pilot workers within UK by geographic region.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold data on the numbers of individual growers that have participated in the pilot. We also do not hold data on the number of pilot workers who left the UK before the end of their visa in a reportable format. This information is recorded and held by the Scheme Operators</p><p>All pilot workers are provided with a contract, setting out their terms of employment. This must be provided in their native language. As part of this contract, the scheme operators are required to ensure pilot workers receive at least the national minimum wage for every week of their employment. The mechanism for achieving this, be it guaranteed payment or guaranteed hours of employment, is at the discretion of the scheme operators.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 81994 81995 81996 82002 82003 question first answered 08/09/2020 16:16:21 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1228989

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Pilot Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants were provided to each UK region under the Seasonal Workers’ Pilot.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	81996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>With regard to the Honourable Members question about the number of workers in the Seasonal Workers Pilot who have made a request to their pilot operator to change their employer I refer him to the response I gave to his question of 17 July (76041).</p><p>The UK operates a national immigration system. We do not break down the distribution of pilot workers within UK by geographic region.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold data on the numbers of individual growers that have participated in the pilot. We also do not hold data on the number of pilot workers who left the UK before the end of their visa in a reportable format. This information is recorded and held by the Scheme Operators</p><p>All pilot workers are provided with a contract, setting out their terms of employment. This must be provided in their native language. As part of this contract, the scheme operators are required to ensure pilot workers receive at least the national minimum wage for every week of their employment. The mechanism for achieving this, be it guaranteed payment or guaranteed hours of employment, is at the discretion of the scheme operators.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 81994 81995 82001 82002 82003 question first answered 08/09/2020 16:16:21 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1228988

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Pilot Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many workers on the seasonal workers pilot have left early.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	81995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>With regard to the Honourable Members question about the number of workers in the Seasonal Workers Pilot who have made a request to their pilot operator to change their employer I refer him to the response I gave to his question of 17 July (76041).</p><p>The UK operates a national immigration system. We do not break down the distribution of pilot workers within UK by geographic region.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold data on the numbers of individual growers that have participated in the pilot. We also do not hold data on the number of pilot workers who left the UK before the end of their visa in a reportable format. This information is recorded and held by the Scheme Operators</p><p>All pilot workers are provided with a contract, setting out their terms of employment. This must be provided in their native language. As part of this contract, the scheme operators are required to ensure pilot workers receive at least the national minimum wage for every week of their employment. The mechanism for achieving this, be it guaranteed payment or guaranteed hours of employment, is at the discretion of the scheme operators.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 81994 81996 82001 82002 82003 question first answered 08/09/2020 16:16:21 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1228987

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Pilot Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer on 22 July 2020 to Question 76041, whether her Department collects information on the number of workers in the Seasonal Workers Pilot that have made a request to their pilot operator to change their employer.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	81994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>With regard to the Honourable Members question about the number of workers in the Seasonal Workers Pilot who have made a request to their pilot operator to change their employer I refer him to the response I gave to his question of 17 July (76041).</p><p>The UK operates a national immigration system. We do not break down the distribution of pilot workers within UK by geographic region.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold data on the numbers of individual growers that have participated in the pilot. We also do not hold data on the number of pilot workers who left the UK before the end of their visa in a reportable format. This information is recorded and held by the Scheme Operators</p><p>All pilot workers are provided with a contract, setting out their terms of employment. This must be provided in their native language. As part of this contract, the scheme operators are required to ensure pilot workers receive at least the national minimum wage for every week of their employment. The mechanism for achieving this, be it guaranteed payment or guaranteed hours of employment, is at the discretion of the scheme operators.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 81995 81996 82001 82002 82003 question first answered 08/09/2020 16:16:21 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1225935

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Pilot Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many workers on a Tier 5 Seasonal Worker Visa have made a request to (a) Concordia and (b) Pro Force to change their employer since the start of the Seasonal Workers Pilot.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
	uin	76041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this data, only the scheme operators do. Therefore, we are unable to answer the question.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/07/2020 16:02:47 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald