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Undocumented Migrants: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to confiscate the assets of people found to be working illegally.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 11 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 13 Jun 2025
Answer: 19 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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11 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to confiscate the assets of people found to be working illegally.
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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19 Jun 2025
Answer published
We work to prevent individuals from making financial gains as a result of their criminal activities and will seek to seize such assets where possible; to this end, section 24 of the UK Borders Act 2007 (which came into force on 1 July 2010) gives immigrat...

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