Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many businesses were found guilty of employing illegal workers, and how much were they fined in 2025.

Information on illegal working civil penalty statistics has been published since 2016 as part of the Home Office Immigration Enforcement Transparency Data. This can be found at immigration-enforcement-data-oct-dec-2025 on tab CP02.

This publication covers the period up to 31 December 2025 and includes both limited companies and sole traders.