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| Attorney general is fined £5,000 | |
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| Attorney General Baroness Scotland is to be fined £5,000 after being found to have breached laws designed to stop illegal immigrants being employed. | Attorney General Baroness Scotland is to be fined £5,000 after being found to have breached laws designed to stop illegal immigrants being employed. |
| The UK Border Agency found she did not knowingly employ a housekeeper who did not have the right to work in the UK. | The UK Border Agency found she did not knowingly employ a housekeeper who did not have the right to work in the UK. |
| But she did not keep a copy of the documents she was shown by Tongan Loloahi Tapui, as required under laws she helped take through Parliament. | But she did not keep a copy of the documents she was shown by Tongan Loloahi Tapui, as required under laws she helped take through Parliament. |
| It is understood she will make a full apology but will not be sacked. | |
| A Downing Street source told the BBC the prime minister took the breach of the law very seriously but because her breach of the rules was not intentional, he did not think she should have to resign. | |
| However Conservative Chris Grayling said she could not "credibly" stay in her job. | |
| The chief executive of the UK Border Agency Lin Homer said, following an investigation, the agency was satisfied Baroness Scotland "did not knowingly employ an illegal worker" and had taken steps to check documents "provided to her as proof of right to work in the UK". | |
| But the statement added: "However, the law requires that employers must keep copies of documents proving the right to work in the UK and in this instance the employer failed to meet this requirement." | |
| It said Baroness Scotland would pay a "civil penalty of £5,000". | |
| "A variable rate of fine can be imposed depending on the circumstances of a case. Employers who co-operate with investigations, as in this case, who have no previous record of employing people illegally, or who can show they made some effort to check the status of an employee, are not normally fined at the maximum level of £10,000." |