Workers Registration Scheme

Mr. Hoban
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the most recent Accession Monitoring Report, what estimate she makes of the number of dependants who have entered the UK with applicants to the Worker Registration Scheme.

Mr. Byrne
Information concerning the actual number of dependants accompanying A8 nationals is published quarterly in The Accession Monitoring Report. This report currently gives data from 1 May 2004 to 30 June 2007. The information you require is published in table 5 of the report, at the following link:

http://www.ind. homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/reports/accession_ monitoring_report

The next Accession Monitoring Report (AMR) will be published on 20 November 2007.

A copy of the AMR will be placed in the House Libraries.