Undocumented Workers

(asked on 24th March 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) visits were made to premises where illegal working was suspected to be taking place and (b) arrests were made at those premises by immigration enforcement teams in (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20, (iii) 2020-21, (iv) 2021-22, (v) 2022-23, (vi) 2023-24 and (viii) 2024-25.


Answered by
Angela Eagle Portrait
Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 28th March 2025

The information requested is not currently available.

Information relating to the number of illegal working visits is available in the Statistics relating to Illegal Migration - GOV.UK.

Financial year

Volume of illegal working visits

2019/20

6236

2020/21

567

2021/22

2069

2022/23

4237

2023/24

6720

Information relating to the volume of arrests for these periods is not currently available.

Information relating to illegal working enforcement activity in 2024/25 will be published on Gov.uk in due course.

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