| Heading: |
Asylum: Employment |
| Question ID: |
1808117 |
| UIN: |
56395 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5030 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dr Simon Opher
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Dr Simon Opher
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 8506 on Asylum: Employment, whether she plans to reduce the waiting time from 12 to six months for asylum seekers to apply for permission to work. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
491 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Angela Eagle
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| Answering Member handle: |
angelaeagle
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@angelaeagle
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| Answer text: |
The Home Office’s priority remains to ensure that employers and employees who play by the rules are not undercut by people working illegally, or by unscrupulous employers exploiting their labour.We have repeatedly resisted calls to relax our policy positi... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |