Gill Furniss – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gill Furniss on 2016-10-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for confirmation of the right to work in the UK were received by the Employer Checking Service in the last 12 months; and how many such requests were confirmed.

Mr Robert Goodwill

81,642 checks were received by the Employer Checking Service between 1st September 2015 and 31st August 2016. 53,006 of these checks confirmed the subjects right to work in the UK.