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Work Permits

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which work permit schemes are available to farmers for employing migrant labour. [73185]

Mr. Byrne: The schemes available to UK farmers under the work permit arrangements for the employment of migrant labour are the Work Permit Scheme, the Training and Work Experience Scheme (TWES) and the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS).

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To qualify for consideration under the Work Permit Scheme the job must require a person with a degree or relevant HMD level qualification, or an NVQ at level three and three years relevant experience.

The TWES arrangements relate to jobs that provide temporary work experience or training requiring a person with either an NVQ at level three or at least 12 months work experience.

The SAWS enables UK farmers and growers to employ students from outside the European Economic Area on a seasonal basis for up to six months a year.

Farmers may also employ workers from other European Union countries, subject only to a requirement for those from Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic to register under the Worker Registration Scheme.

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many valid work permits issued to workers from each country there were at the latest available date. [83804]

Mr. Byrne: The information is set out in the following table.

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Nationality	Valid permits
India	102,730
Philippines	41,079
United States Of America	35,191
South Africa	30,524
Australia	21,044
China Peoples Republic Of	20,830
Zimbabwe	13,802
Pakistan	13,097
Malaysia	11 ,654
Japan	11,371
Nigeria	8,165
New Zealand	7,799
Canada	7,726
Bulgaria	5,935
Romania	5,161
Ghana	4,265
Thailand	4,067
Ukraine	4,003
Bangladesh	3,900
Russia	3,800
Kenya	3,370
Sri Lanka	3,200
Mauritius	3,165
South Korea	3,089
Jamaica	2,626
Turkey	2,359
Zambia	2,207
Singapore	2,090
Brazil	2,079
Nepal	1,978
British National Overseas	1,976
Hong Kong	1,753
Trinidad and Tobago	1,765
Argentina	1,518
Israel	1,358
Egypt	1,179
Mexico	1,103
Lebanon	894
Guyana	889
Poland	864
Iran	863
Belarus	852
Colombia	786
Indonesia	759
Taiwan	735
Malawi	620
Uganda	579
Botswana	557
Cameroon	540
Moldova	527
Jordan	514
Yugoslavia	505
Hungary	491
Croatia	473
Tanzania	448
Sierra Leone	436
Venezuela	421
Morocco	415
Syrian Arab Republic	411
Czech Republic	382
Myanmar	366
Swaziland	359
Saudi Arabia	324
Sudan	322
Kazakhstan	321
Algeria	305
Chile	305
Cyprus	298
Switzerland	297
Vietnam	293
Barbados	292
Libya	289
Serbia	271
Cuba	251
Slovakia	247
Albania	224
Lesotho	224
Namibia	210
Gambia	198
Tunisia	197
Peru	189
Azerbaijan	175
Macedonia	163
St. Lucia	161
Seychelles	153
Iraq	151
Latvia	149
Lithuania	147
Uzbekistan	133
Georgia	132
Palestine	114
Malta	108
Senegal	104
Congo	99
Angola	94
St. Vincent	89
Brunei	86
Kuwait	85
Ethiopia	81
Armenia	77
Bosnia—Herzegovina	74
Grenada	69
British Overseas Citz.	68
Ecuador	68
Mongolia	66
Dominica	65
Costa Rica	64
Uruguay	64
Fiji	61
Estonia	58
Kyrgyzstan	55
Afghanistan	50
Slovenia	49
Bahrain	47
Oman	47
Bolivia	45
Ivory Coast	44
Mali	43
Dominican Republic	42
St. Helena	40
United Arab Emirates	40
Belize	36
Bahamas	31
Turkmenistan	30
Somalia	29
Yemen Republic Of	28
Samoa	27
Maldives	26
Panama	25
Mozambique	24
Tonga	24
Kosovo	23
Togo	23
British Dependant Terr	21
Antigua	20
Guatemala	20
Paraguay	20
Tadzikhistan	20
Honduras	19
El Salvador	18
Nauru	18
St. Kitts	16
Niger	15
Rwanda	15
Gabon	13
Haiti	13
Qatar	13
Burundi	12
Liberia	12
Palestinian Authority	12
Papua New Guinea	12
Benin	11
Eritrea	10
Mauritania	10
Burkina Faso	9
Guinea	8
Monaco	8
Cambodia	7
Madagascar	7
Montenegro	6
Nicaragua	6
Surinam	6
Andorra	5
Bermuda	4
Bhutan	4
Chad	4
Zaire	4
North Korea	3
Sao Tome and Principe	3
Turks and Caicos Islands	3
Vanuatu	3
Burma	2
Comoros	2
Djibouti	2
Soloman Islands	2
Central African Republic	1
Kiribati	1
Laos	1
Western Samoa	1
Total	416,909

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