Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Mr Chair. I am keen to explore the Minister's views around the Accredited Employer Work Visa and the system that we've got at the moment and how well it's working.My first question is that during this briefing process our select committee learnt from immigration officials that only 25 percent of businesses seeking accreditation and then being accredited were going to be checked by a team working inside Immigration New Zealand. My first question is: does the Minister think that only 25 percent of businesses being checked for accreditation is acceptable? Does he think that that might lead to businesses exploiting the system and exploiting migrants? The reason that I ask that question is that we have seen in recent times an explosion of exploited migrants in New Zealand. In fact there was a news item saying that there had been a sixfold increase in the number of people being exploited. Given this Government's commitment to try and stamp out exploitation it seemed that the opposite is happening when you get people like Anu Kaloti from the Migrant Workers Association saying that she has been inundated with migrants on both visitor and work visas coming to her because they had been exploited scammed and were desperate for help. So the question comes back to the system that we run in accrediting businesses which was supposed to have the intention of stamping out migrant exploitation. But when only 25 percent of those businesses are going to be checked according to officials at the Education and Workforce Committee that is potentially problematic.The second question is: what number have been checked so far? Immigration said 25 percent. That's their aim. Can I ask the Minister: how many have been checked so far? The reason that's important is we know that businesses were supposed to ask for reaccreditation after a year; that's been pushed out for another year so now we have a 24-month period of businesses potentially not being checked and not having to reaccredit themselves leaving a much wider scope for them to potentially work in cahoots with overseas operators to scam people into the country. The reports that we're hearing because of this lack of oversight are that migrants overseas are paying upwards of $15000—I've heard up to $40000—for a job token" because that's what they believe they have to do then coming into New Zealand finding that the job doesn't exist finding themselves in a pretty desperate situation then working under the table or going on to a migrant exploitation visa and then being exploited on that visa which we found in a meeting last week. Many who were on migrant exploitation visas were actually working under the table. So the question is: is that a robust process?The reason again I ask is because I met with 18 Chinese migrants last week who were in this very difficult situation who had been scammed and are now being exploited. Every single one of the immigration documents they gave me with the company name that they were supposed to work for. I looked up; none of them not a single one had a website had contact details that I could find online or anything about their business other than being registered with the Companies Office. That's all that existed online. I couldn't find out anything about those businesses. So my third question is: does the Minister find it acceptable that companies are being accredited in a number of days—without a website without any contact details without any company history and without having to give any documentation to Immigration New Zealand—and then sitting there for two years without having to be reaccredited? And very unlikely will it be that they get checked by Immigration New Zealand given that only 15 percent are being checked for accreditation by the Accredited Employer Risk Management and Review team. Then the follow-up question is: does the Minister believe that these holes in our system are leading to an explosion of migrants who are paying many many thousands of dollars for visas to then be scammed and find themselves being exploited in this country—the very thing that this Government says they want to stamp out? Thank you."