Undocumented Migrants: Employment
(asked on 4th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fines have been issued to companies for employing illegal immigrants since 2010; what the total amount of those fines was; and of those fines, how much has been collected.
The information you requested for the financial years 2009/10 to 2015/16, and for the current financial year to the end of September, set out in the table.
Financial years | Number of initial penalties issued | Total Value of initial penalties issued | Value of penalties collected |
2009/10 | 2339 | £23.2m | £4.3m |
2010/11 | 1899 | £17.2m | £6.9m |
2011/12 | 1341 | £11.4m | £6.5m |
2012/13 | 1270 | £10.8m | £6.3m |
2013/14 | 2149 | £16.7m | £5.4m |
2014/15 | 1974 | £29.6m | £7m |
2015/16 | 2594 | £46.2m | £12.5m |
2016/17 (up to 30/09/16) | 1549 | £24.0m | £8.5m |
Please note the figures are for penalties levied at the initial decision stage which may be reduced, cancelled, increased or reissued at the objection or appeal stage.
Please also note that the collection figures are not cohort based statistics and therefore do not represent payment against penalties issued in a particular year.
The figures show the number of civil penalties issued to all businesses in the periods set out in the table. This includes public and private limited companies, sole traders, partnerships and franchises.