Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 68425

Self-employed: Fraud

Tabled: 16 July 2025
Answered: 22 July 2025
Named Day

Question

Neil Coyle

LabourBermondsey and Old Southwark

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to tackle bogus self-employment in the digital economy.

Answer

Justin Madders
The Government is clear that bogus self-employment is unacceptable. Employers should never seek to deny people their employment rights and avoid their own legal obligations by claiming someone is self-employed when in reality they are not. We recognise th...

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