Written Question·Home Office·UIN 62738

Undocumented Workers: Gig Economy

Tabled: 25 June 2025
Answered: 4 July 2025
Named Day

Question

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 Eagle
The 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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