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.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
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.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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