Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report by the University of Nottingham entitled Understanding risks of exploitation for vulnerable migrant workers in the UK during Covid-19 published July 2021, what assessment she has made of the impact for her policies of that report's finding on the number of labour inspectors per 10,000 workers and the International Labour Organisation's guidelines.

The Home Office are responsible for the resourcing of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA). We regularly assess funding of the GLAA.

The Director of Labour Market Enforcement has a statutory responsibility to assess the scale and nature of non-compliance in the labour market. Her 2022-23 strategy was recently published and sets out her assessment of the risks in the labour market and for vulnerable workers. Over the decade from 2010 to 2020 the UK funding to the labour market enforcement bodies (HMRC’s National Minimum Wage Team, Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate and Gangmasters Labour Abuse Authority) has increased to over £35 Million representing a 121% increase in funding.