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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 19 January 2026
Debate
Digital IDContribution
Secondly, we are committed to reducing illegal migration and will be mandating that right-to-work checks are conducted digitally. Currently, employers can carry out checks of more than a dozen different forms of ID. For British and Irish citizens, many of those checks are currently paper-based. That is confusing, vulnerable to fraud and does not always create a clear record of when and where checks have been carried out.
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