Question follow-through · 30090
Undocumented Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people arrested for illegal working in January 2025 were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 14 Feb 2025 · 4 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, how many and what proportion of people arrested for illegal working in January 2025 were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
The priority with individuals found to be working illegally in the UK is to secure their removal from the country, in line with our normal procedures for returns and deportations.The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statist...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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