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HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesI am grateful to the hon. Lady for those points. The scheme is broadly operating as it is designed to, which is shown by the fact that about 1,400 certificates are unused as of…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesThe hon. Gentleman was the originator of the meeting, which is now growing into a fairly substantial one—we will have to get a larger room. I will make sure that it is in the…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesThere is no significant evidence to suggest that the UK labour market varies so greatly between the nations that we need to take different approaches in England, Scotland, Wales…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesThe scheme exists for exactly that purpose. At the danger of repeating myself, having a quota of 40,000 has proved to be approximately what the industry requires. The other thing…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesThe events of the past few years have taught us all the importance of resilience in many different respects, including food security. That is a factor that we at the Home Office…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesI am very alive to those issues. I will shortly meet a delegation from the fishing industry that has been organised at the request of other Members. If the right hon. Gentleman…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesI am sympathetic to the proposal that we create a scheme that is of multi-year duration, enabling employers to plan over the longer term. We have just been through one or two of…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesI am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who of course brings more expertise to this issue than anybody in the House. He rightly says that the seasonal agricultural workers scheme…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for asking this urgent question. The Home Office recognises the importance of the UK food and drink sector, and the agricultural industry…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesA key priority for me and for the Department is to ensure that those who come to the UK under the scheme do so legitimately and are properly looked after by their employers. For…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Seasonal Worker Visas: Sponsorship CertificatesWe take into account all those considerations in formulating the policy, and we need to consider other factors as well. We need to ensure that we draw on our domestic workforce as…08 Dec 2022HANSARDManston UpdateMy hon. Friend is right that those arriving at Western Jet Foil frequently present with conditions, some of which have been picked up in the course of their travels. For example,…28 Nov 2022HANSARDManston UpdateMay I extend my apologies, on behalf of the Department, to the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper)—and, indeed, to you, Mr Speaker—for the…28 Nov 2022HANSARDManston UpdateIt is for those reasons that I took the decision today that no asylum seeker will leave Manston if they are displaying any symptoms whatsoever of diphtheria, or indeed of other…28 Nov 2022HANSARDManston UpdateI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her kind words. It has always been my approach, from day one, to ensure that Manston is brought into a legal and decent state. I am…28 Nov 2022HANSARDManston UpdateThe UKHSA’s advice to me is that the risk to the broader UK population is very low because of the high prevalence of our vaccination programme—over 90% of the British public has…28 Nov 2022HANSARDManston UpdateI respect the right hon. Lady’s point of view and experience, but it has not taken a death for the Home Office to focus on this issue. This individual’s death is deeply…28 Nov 2022HANSARDManston UpdateThe right hon. Lady says not stately homes. Unfortunately, there are stately homes being used for this purpose. That is an outrage and we need to change it. My hon. Friend the…28 Nov 2022HANSARDManston UpdateI would be happy to look into the example the hon. Lady has given. However, she may also have seen the advice I issued last week to Members of Parliament and local authorities,…28 Nov 2022HANSARDManston UpdateThat is an important point, because we aspire to be in a position—indeed, we are now—where individuals spend a very short period of time at Manston, then rapidly move into other…28 Nov 2022