Written Question·Home Office·UIN 88400

Undocumented Workers

Tabled: 5 November 2025

Answered: 17 November 2025

Question

Lewis Cocking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of individuals working without the legal right to do so in each of the last five years.

Answer

Alex Norris

The Home Office does not hold an estimate of the number of individuals working without the legal right to do so. Details of Immigration Enforcement activity to tackle illegal employment in the UK can be found in the Home Office’s published transparency da...

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