Written Question·Home Office·UIN 58917

Undocumented Migrants: Employment

Tabled: 11 June 2025
Answered: 19 June 2025

Question

Sir John Hayes

Conservative — South Holland and The Deepings

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to confiscate the assets of people found to be working illegally.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
We work to prevent individuals from making financial gains as a result of their criminal activities and will seek to seize such assets where possible; to this end, section 24 of the UK Borders Act 2007 (which came into force on 1 July 2010) gives immigrat...
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