Written Question·Home Office·UIN 76876

Undocumented Workers: Arrests

Tabled: 12 September 2025
Answered: 17 September 2025

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

Conservative — Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the increase in illegal working arrests involved people who had originally entered the UK on work visas.

Answer

Alex Norris
The government takes illegal working very seriously, and we are determined to clamp down on the employment of individuals with no right to work in the UK.The specific information requested is not readily available from published statistics and could only ...
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