§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list employers' organisations and other bodies which have made representations about his proposals for the introduction of employer sanctions to deter the employment of illegal immigrants or of those legally here but with a prohibition against working; and if he will place in the Library copies of the representations. [40228]
§ Mr. KirkhopeI have received written representations from the Institute of Directors and from the St. Albans branch of Amnesty International. It would not be appropriate for me to place copies of these letters in the Library.
§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimates he has available as270W to the scale of the problem of employers taking on illegal workers. [40229]
§ Mr. KirkhopeNo such estimates are available, but in 1994 over 10,000 people were detected by the immigration service working while either here illegally or here legally but prohibited from taking work.