Written Question·Home Office·UIN 74092

Undocumented Migrants: Employment

Tabled: 2 September 2025
Answered: 10 September 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people working in the UK illegally after their visa has expired.

Answer

Alex Norris
The Home Office does not currently hold a reliable estimate of the number of individuals working in the UK following the expiry of their visas.The government takes illegal working very seriously, and we are determined to clamp down on the employment of in...
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