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	registered interest
	date	01/02/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Employment
	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 her Department’s decision to move to a system of online right to work checks during the covid-19 outbreak, what plans her Department has to make an assessment of the potential effect of that move on (a) employers and (b) people seeking work.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	146947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office’s online right to work checking service has been in operation for over two years. It enables employers to undertake free digital checks on prospective employees with a biometric residence card, status under the EU Settlement Scheme or the new Points-Based System. The online service is more secure than physical document checks and relies on real-time information from the Home Office about an individual’s status.</p><p>Since its inception, the service has been used by employers over 150,000 times and feedback from employers and user groups has been positive.</p><p>The online right to work checking service is part of our wider ambition to develop a border and immigration system which is “digital by default” for all migrants, including evidence of immigration status. Over time this means we will increasingly replace physical and paper-based products and services with accessible, easy to use online and digital services. As part of this, we continue to work closely with employers and employers’ groups, including on the merits of specialist technology, such as Identity Document Validation Technology, in conducting checks.</p><p>In March 2020, we introduced an adjusted right to work checking process to support businesses through the pandemic. We are currently conducting a review of the process to ensure the current and future checking regimes meet the requirements of employers through the unique circumstances presented by the pandemic, whilst maintaining the security and integrity of our system in the long-term.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 146945 146946 question first answered 08/02/2021 17:02:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1282530

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations her Department has received on the use of specialist digital technology to facilitate safe and secure online right to work checks; and whether her Department plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing that technology.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	146945
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office’s online right to work checking service has been in operation for over two years. It enables employers to undertake free digital checks on prospective employees with a biometric residence card, status under the EU Settlement Scheme or the new Points-Based System. The online service is more secure than physical document checks and relies on real-time information from the Home Office about an individual’s status.</p><p>Since its inception, the service has been used by employers over 150,000 times and feedback from employers and user groups has been positive.</p><p>The online right to work checking service is part of our wider ambition to develop a border and immigration system which is “digital by default” for all migrants, including evidence of immigration status. Over time this means we will increasingly replace physical and paper-based products and services with accessible, easy to use online and digital services. As part of this, we continue to work closely with employers and employers’ groups, including on the merits of specialist technology, such as Identity Document Validation Technology, in conducting checks.</p><p>In March 2020, we introduced an adjusted right to work checking process to support businesses through the pandemic. We are currently conducting a review of the process to ensure the current and future checking regimes meet the requirements of employers through the unique circumstances presented by the pandemic, whilst maintaining the security and integrity of our system in the long-term.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 146946 146947 question first answered 08/02/2021 17:02:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1282531

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of (a) the potential benefits of the temporary removal of physical right to work checks for (i) employers and (ii) employees and (b) whether a permanent transition to an online system could (i) support post covid-19 economic recovery and (ii) encourage participation in the labour market.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	146946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office’s online right to work checking service has been in operation for over two years. It enables employers to undertake free digital checks on prospective employees with a biometric residence card, status under the EU Settlement Scheme or the new Points-Based System. The online service is more secure than physical document checks and relies on real-time information from the Home Office about an individual’s status.</p><p>Since its inception, the service has been used by employers over 150,000 times and feedback from employers and user groups has been positive.</p><p>The online right to work checking service is part of our wider ambition to develop a border and immigration system which is “digital by default” for all migrants, including evidence of immigration status. Over time this means we will increasingly replace physical and paper-based products and services with accessible, easy to use online and digital services. As part of this, we continue to work closely with employers and employers’ groups, including on the merits of specialist technology, such as Identity Document Validation Technology, in conducting checks.</p><p>In March 2020, we introduced an adjusted right to work checking process to support businesses through the pandemic. We are currently conducting a review of the process to ensure the current and future checking regimes meet the requirements of employers through the unique circumstances presented by the pandemic, whilst maintaining the security and integrity of our system in the long-term.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 146945 146947 question first answered 08/02/2021 17:02:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day