Speeches

Lord Browne of Belmont – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Browne of Belmont on 2016-02-04.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many business establishments in Northern Ireland have been fined for employing illegal national workers in each of the last four years.

Lord Bates

The information requested is shown in the following table. The figures are based on the number of civil penalties issued to individual employers during each of the last four complete financial years and the current financial year to 31st January 2016. This includes public and private limited companies, sole traders, partnerships and franchises.

Financial year

Civil penalties issued

2011-12

14

2012-13

19

2013-14

42

2014-15

85

2015-16 (to 31st January 2016)

57