Pressure mounts on Baroness Scotland

News 23 09 2009 Pressure mounts on Baroness Scotland

Attorney General Baroness Scotland was fined £5,000 on Tuesday after it emerged that she had employed a Tongan housekeeper who had no right to work in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />UK. Labour MP Stephen Hesford, parliamentary aide to the Government law officers, has stepped down because he felt that she should have left her post as a matter of principle while Mr Brown (PM) said he believed Lady Scotland had acted "in good faith" and should not lose her job over the civil fine she was given. According to yesterdays News her fine should have been £10,000 fine for unknowingly taking on illegal workers.

 

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22 09 2009 Lady Scotland risks migrant fineThose who knowingly take on illegal workers face a two-year prison sentence and unlimited fine, while those who do it unknowingly face a £10,000 fine. The Border Agency specifies certain documents, including passports, must be scrutinised. The housekeeper worked at her ? million home in west London.

00 00 2006 Baroness Scotland - a Home Office minister in 2006 when tough new rules to clamp down on illegal working were taken through Parliament.

19 05 2006 Inquiry into illegal immigrant cleaners at Home Office
19 05 2006 Home Office migrants row deepens.
18 ?? 2007 Illegal immigrant guarded the Home Office for 19 months
09 02 2008 Illegal immigrant found cleaning the House of Commons