Latest Political Engagement

November

• APSCo meets with Gillian Unsworth, Head of Gender and Workplace Equality at the Cabinet Office
• APSCo submits response to BEIS Consultation on Day 1 Flexible Working
• APSCo submits its response to the House of Lords Further Questions on Off-Payroll in the private sector
• APSCo writes to Tom Pursglove MP concerning digital Right to Work checks

October

• APSCo receives response from Tom Purslglove MP, Minister for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration, on proposed review of the availability of specialist technology to support a system of digital Right to Work checks in the future
• APSCo submits response to the ICO’s call for views on the Employment Practice’s Code
• APSCo sends submission to ICO on International Data Transfers Consultation

September

• APSCo meets with Lord Knight of Weymouth to discuss reform of the Apprenticeship Levy and how that reform – and the recruitment sector – can help with addressing skills shortages

August

• Lobbying win for APSCo as return to physical Right to Work checks is delayed until April 2022
• APSCo and the REC write to Minister for Immigration, Compliance & Justice regarding the retention of digital Right to Work checks

July

• APSCo submits joint FOI request with the REC asking for disclosure of risk assessment undertaken by Home Office to come to decision to revert to face-to-face checks and statistics on UK passport fraud during COVID concession period
• Tania Bowers meets with Senior Policy Advisors in Home Office to discuss Right to Work checks and switch to permanent digital system
• Tania Bowers meets with Liz Barclay, new Small Business Commissioner, BEIS

June

• Tania Bowers meets with HMRC regarding Raising Standards in the Tax Advice Market team
• Tania Bowers meets with Terry Corby, Chair of Good Business Pays, to discuss prompt payment
• Tania Bowers meets with Ian Mearns MP
• Tania Bowers meets with Senior Policy Advisors to discuss prompt payment, employment status and umbrella regulation
• APSCo writes to Home Secretary to ask for an urgent extension to remote Right to Work Checks
• APSCo responds to the introduction of single enforcement body to protect workers’ rights 

May

• HM Treasury responds to APSCo’s Policy Focus
• APSCo responds to Government consultation on portable and flexible apprenticeships
• Tania Bowers meets with Kemi Badenoch, Treasury Secretary & Minister for Equalities and her team to discuss Off Payroll, employment status, the Apprenticeship Levy and Diversity
• Tania Bowers meets with Paul Scully, BEIS Minister for the Labour Market and Prompt Payment/Small Business to discuss Off-Payroll, changes to pending changes employment recruitment regulation, regulating umbrella companies and prompt payment
• APSCo, the REC, some joint Enterprise members and the RL100 write again to Priti Patel urging her to reconsider the Right to Work check scheduled to revert to "physical face to face" on 17th May

April

• Tania Bowers meets with Toby Perkins MP, Labour Minister for Apprenticeships to discuss our ideas around more flexible use of the apprenticeship levy to fund the running of apprenticeship schemes for agency workers
• Home Office responds to APSCo regarding points based immigration concerns
• Tania Bowers appointed as an Apprenticeship Intermediary Ambassador for the Intermediary Ambassador Network (IAN) which inputs into the Department for Education’s plans and policies around skills and also contributes to the shaping and influencing of new programme approaches
• ​​APSCo writes to Home secretary Priti Patel to raise concerns over Right to Work checks changes

March

• APSCo responds to call for evidence for COVID-19 certification
• APSCo writes open letter highlighting the value of education sector recruitment firms copied to Gavin Williamson MP, Secretary of State for Education; Paul Scully MP, BEIS Under Minister; and Nick Gibb MP, Minister for School Standards
• Budget Summary 2021
• APSCo responds to Chancellor’s Budget
• APSCo has two MP Meetings: Richard Fuller and Mark Pawsey – both members of the BEIS Select Committee, who were keen to discuss aspects of our Policy Focus

February

• APSCo issues press statement summarising recommendations submitted to Treasury
• APSCo highlights role of education recruitment sector in Government’s ‘Catch Up Plan’
• APSCo highlights that supply teachers, business aid and furlough support are missing from Prime Ministers roadmap out of lockdown
• APSCo responds to Uber Supreme Court Decision highlighting need for employment status review
• APSCo warns that supply teacher payment guidance does not do enough

January

• APSCo warns that Government skills for jobs whitepaper fails to support flexible training
• APSCo welcomes changes to Kickstart Scheme but is disappointed at delays
• APSCo welcomes reform to Prompt Payment Code
• Post-Brexit employment rules - APSCo says that a review of employment status long overdue
• APSCo says furloughed supply teachers left out in the cold with recruiters expected to act as bankers
• APSCo has first tranche of Kickstart applications approved
• APSCo responds to latest national lockdown and business support package
• APSCo outlines its 2021 public policy asks: with critical business support top of the agenda
• APSCo Public Policy Update
• APSCo writes to Kwasi Kwarteng in response to Government announcement of post Brexit review of workers’ rights
• APSCo writes to Gavin Williamson to highlight supply teacher and agency worker payment issues
• APSCo submits recommendations to Government ahead of budget

December

• APSCo attends Single Enforcement Body roundtable hosted by the Director of Labour Market Enforcement
• Submission to BEIS Small Business Commissioner on increasing the Commissioner’s powers and scope

November

• APSCo hosts Kevin Hollinrake PPS to Michael Gove at virtual member meeting
• APSCo writes to National Tutoring Programme on behalf of education sector members to raise concerns about the tender process
• APSCo submits evidence to House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee on the effect of Covid on the employment market

October

• APSCo responds  to NASUWT about their ‘better deal for supply teachers’ 
• APSCo writes to Gillian Keegan, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Apprenticeship & Skills with further proposals for broadening of Apprenticeship Levy
• APSCo joint Brexit Statement with CBI
• APSCo meets with Holly Lynch MP Shadow Immigration Minister
• APSCo files submission to HMRC call for evidence on raising standards in tax advice
• APSCo files submission to HMRC call for evidence on Disguised Remuneration Schemes
• APSCo attends Roundtables with HMRC IR35 Forum on Disguised Remuneration, Finance Act and the impact on intermediaries and the umbrella supplier industry

September

• APSCo meets with Business Secretary Alok Sharma MP, at BEIS round table on talent 
• APSCo meets with Prime Minister's Office for Talent on bringing the brightest and best to Britain post Brexit

August

• APSCo attends IR35 Forum Roundtable "Tax Advisors" Call for Evidence

July

• APSCo submits evidence to the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Select Committee on  Post Pandemic Economic Growth
• Letter to Gillian Keegan, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Apprenticeships and Skills outlining our recommendations around how the use of the Apprenticeship levy could be broadened

June

• Letter to Jesse Norman asking for an extension of the SSP refund to those with more than 250 employees
• Letter to Therese Coffey MP, Work and Pensions Secretary - signed by APSCo, ALP, TEAM and REC

May

• APSCo submits evidence to the Treasury Committee on the Impact of Coronavirus to the UK Economy
• Letter to the Chancellor

April

• Letter to John Glen, Financial Secretary to HM Treasury 
• A letter to Mel Stride, Chair of the Treasury Select Committee
• Letter to Ed Miliband MP Shadow Business Secretary
• Letter from APSCo and other stakeholders to Chancellor re: Agency and Umbrella Workers
• Letter to Annaliese Dodds MP Shadow Chancellor

March

• APSCo writes to Chief Executive of British Business Bank
• APSCo Call To Arms - COVID-19 Template Letter to send to your MP

January/February

• APSCo files response to consultation on ICO draft direct marketing code of practice
• APSCo attends  2nd meeting with Jesse Norman MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury
• APSCo co-chairs HMRC bi-monthly IR35 Forum
• APSCo submits evidence to House of Lords Finance Bill sub-committee on IR35
• APSCo meets with Christine Jardine MP, Liberal Democrat leadership candidate
• APSCo meets with Steve Double MP, Vice-Chair of the SPPG on Migration
• APSCo submits evidence to the APPG on migration 
• APSCo meets with Jesse Norman, Financial Secretary to the Treasury to discuss review of IR35 implementation
• APSCo writes to Chancellor urging for a delay to Off-Payroll rules in the private sector
• APSCo publishes half year policy document

• APSCo publishes manifesto: The Changing Face of Work: Promoting the Value of Professional Talent  
• APSCo invited to present evidence to the APPG on migration
• APSCo invited to present evidence to Sir Aymos Morse on Independent Loan Charge Review 
• APSCo meets with Craig Tracey MP, PPS to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to discuss professional recruitment within the economy
• APSCo responds to consultation on Good Work Plan: One Sided Flexibility 
• APSCo responds to HMRC Off Payroll Consultation
• APSCo has one to one meetings with Ben Bradley MP; Ian Mearns MP – members of Education Select Committee
• APSCo has one to one meetings with Baroness Garden and Lord Lucas – members of various APPGs concerning skills and employment
• Mike Kane MP Shadow Minister for Schools attends APSCo dinner 
• APSCo meets with Kate Green MP who introduces APSCo to the APGG on migration
• APSCo meets with Mark Pawsey MP who then tables questions in parliament on post Brexit immigration policy
• APSCo co-chairs bi-monthly HMRC IR35 Forum
• APSCo attends bi-monthly CBI Employment Taxes Forum
• APSCo attends quarterly meetings with Employment Agency Standards team and BEIS Policy Adviser
• APSCo meets with Director of Labour Market Enforcement & Safer Jobs
• APSCo launches monthly Brexit Journal 

• APSCo becomes co-chair of HMRC’s IR35 Forum, representing the non-HMRC members of the group
• HMRC’s IR35 Forum becomes a sub-committee of their Employment & Payroll Group, which APSCo now sits on
• APSCo meets with the Sir David Metcalf, Director of Labour Market Enforcement
• APSCo engages with BEIS regarding four consultations in response to the Taylor Review
• Legal and  Compliance briefing on Taylor 'Good Work' review

• APSCo engages with BEIS on The Taylor Review recommendations, and provides submission
• APSCo surveys members on impact of the off-payroll rules in the public sector
• APSCo lobbies Conservative backbench MPs and the Treasury regarding the possible extension of the off-payroll rules into the private sector
• APSCo 2017 Manifesto, Brexit & Beyond published and sent to 50 MPs and decision makers
• APSCo is first recruitment body to give evidence to the Matthew Taylor Review on modern working practices
• APSCo responds to Independent Review on Modern Working Practices
• APSCo is successful in getting revisions to the Off-payroll Rules in the Public Sector
• APSCo has various meetings and communications with the Government regarding the Apprenticeship Levy
• APSCo liaises with the Crown Commercial Service & the Department for Education regarding the proposed supply teacher framework
• APSCo meets with Resolution Foundation
• APSCo responds to Child & Family Social Work National Assessment and Accreditation System

• APSCo lobbies MPs on proposed off-payroll working in the public sector tax changes
• APSCo responds to consultation on off-payroll working in the public sector
• APSCo continues as a member of HMRC’s IR35 Forum
• APSCo sits on the Professional Assurance Group for Public Sector Resourcing (PSR) liaising with the Crown Commercial Service
• APSCo EU Manifesto Informing the Debate published and sent to MPs and stakeholders
• APSCo lobbies German Government on AÜG reform

• APSCo is successful in getting significant concessions to reporting requirements
• APSCo responds to consultation on travel and subsistence tax relief
• APSCo responds to consultation on IR35 Review
• APSCo writes to Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary, about recruitment in the healthcare sector
• APSCo lobbies on proposals for rate caps in the NHS

• APSCo lobbies on onshore and offshore proposals
• APSCo has various meetings HMRC regarding Finance Bill changes
• APSCo lobbies on reporting requirements

• APSCo continues to lobby on tax avoidance 
• Offshore employment intermediaries consultation
• APSCo meets with HMRC on numerous occasions regarding tax avoidance proposals
• House of Lords Select Committee on Personal Service Companies
• Onshore Employment Intermediaries consultation

• Recruitment Supply Chain business forum
• Launch of APSCode – RPO & MSP code of conduct
• APSCo meets Government Procurement Service
• APSCo joins Security Clearance Forum
• APSCo meets Treasury and HMRC re off-payroll arrangements
• APSCo responds to Controlling Persons consultation – Government backs down
• APSCo meets Chair of Public Accounts Committe