Written Question·Home Office·UIN 62738
Undocumented Workers: Gig Economy
Tabled: 25 June 2025
Answered: 4 July 2025
Named DayQuestion
Mr Andrew Snowden
Conservative — Fylde
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) asylum seekers and (b) irregular migrants without the right to work in the UK working in the gig economy.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleThe Home Office does not hold an estimate of the number of people working illegally in the gig economy. The recent joint work between the Office for National Statistics and the Home Office explains the complexities - Measuring illegal migration: our curre...
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