Question follow-through · 30041

Undocumented Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a list of occupations of people arrested for working illegally in the UK.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
12 Feb 2025
Answer
13 Feb 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a list of occupations of people arrested for working illegally in the UK.

  2. 12 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office does not hold a comprehensive list of the occupations for which individuals have been arrested for illegal working but the focus of recent enforcement work has included car washes, nail bars, construction sites ad takeaway restaurants.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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