Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Written Statement of 3 September 2014, Official Report, column 21WS, on Immigration Act 2014: implementation, how her Department plans to monitor and record information collected from the pilot scheme for landlords to make immigration checks in the West Midlands from 1 December 2014.

The Government has given a commitment to evaluate the impacts of the implementation of the provisions in the Immigration Act as they relate to the private rented sector in its first six months. The results will be published
in the late summer or autumn of next year.

The Home Office will be recording and monitoring activity to support and enforce the scheme. The evaluation will also look at other impacts. These include access to the private rented sector, impacts on landlords, agents and local services, such as local authorities, and any effects on discrimination or vulnerable people.

A consultative panel of bodies representing landlords, lettings agents, local authorities, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and CRISIS is overseeing the evaluation.