Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests of illegal workers have resulted in deportation to their country of origin in the last six months.

The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’, which can be found here: Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (opens in a new tab). This does not include a separate category for individuals arrested for illegal working, and that could only be collated and verified for the purposes of this answering question at disproportionate cost.