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Patrick Wintour
London: The British Government is planning to extend compulsory English language tests to an extra 150,000 migrants who want to settle in the U.K. each year, under plans to be unveiled by the Home Office (Interior Ministry) next week. The initiative is part of a tough new Government strategy that will also see new attempts to block illegal immigrants from having access to public services such as housing, benefits, and medical help, as well as to private services, such as banking. Handbooks will spell out for the first time that settlers and citizens have a duty to be involved in British civic life by taking part in juries and voluntary activity. A fresh attack on illegal employment of migrants will also be announced. Ministers intend to introduce a credit system for the 75,000 firms that annually apply for work permits to employ foreign workers. Firms that have a good record of not employing illegal migrants will be rated ``reliable''. And there will be closer inspection by 200 compliance officers of those that do not meet the standard. Fines are also likely to be increased. Home Secretary (Interior Minister) John Reid admitted to ``an underlying reality that we have not been tough enough in policing access to such services as council housing, legal aid or the tax-funded National Health Service care''. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006
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