Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the aim is of Operation Skybreaker; and if she will make a statement.

Operation Skybreaker is a pilot approach to encourage greater compliance with the immigration rules in 10 pilot areas. Home Office Immigration Enforcement has intensified its local partnership engagement and sought to assist local businesses on how to conduct right to work checks on their employees.

The aim of the pilot approach is to test new ways of working and identify how best to reduce illegal immigration, which is bad for both British citizens and those who have come to this country legally.

This is a routine, local, operational matter and significant engagement has been undertaken with those involved in partnership working and the communities.