FOI reference: FOI-2025-2985
You asked
Home Office guidance issued in 2024 recommended that all employers conduct right to work checks on suppliers of contractors/staff.
What protocols does your organisation have in place with contractors, of any service, to ensure that right to work checks have been conducted?
How many contractors/staff did your organisation use from suppliers in the calendar year 2024 and how many right to work checks did your organisation conduct?
The number of instances in which your organisation identified that a supplier had not conducted appropriate right to work checks, for the years 2021 to 2024. A breakdown of the measures taken (suspension of contract, refusal to engage in business, sanction).
We said
Thank you for your request.
The suppliers of our contractors conduct right to work checks that adhere to the Home Office guidance.
514 contractors/staff on-boarded from suppliers in the calendar year of 2024. Right to work checks for these contractors/staff were conducted by the suppliers.
No instances identified where the supplier did not conduct appropriate checks in the period stated.