Question follow-through · 62736

Asylum: Undocumented Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of illegally working while awaiting an asylum claim have on the outcome of that claim.

answeredHome Office

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: 25 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 30 Jun 2025
Answer: 30 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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

More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders

Undocumented Workers: Gig Economy · 4 Jul 2025
Deportation · 7 Jul 2025

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of illegally working while awaiting an asylum claim have on the outcome of that claim.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2025
Answer published
Illegal working is a criminal offence, and it is important for asylum seekers to adhere to the rules on the right to work in the UK. Evidence of illegal working will routinely be taken into account when assessing an asylum seeker's claim.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police: Recruitment

27 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional (a) neighbourhood police officers, (b) police community support officers and (c) special constables have been recruited since the start of this Parliament.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Neighbourhood Policing: Recruitment

27 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to publish force-level recruitment figures for neighbourhood policing roles.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Neighbourhood Policing

27 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to (a) help improve (i) public confidence and (ii) perceptions of fairness in policing and (b) measure progress on the implementation of the measures set out in the

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Anti-social Behaviour

27 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces have (a) appointed a dedicated antisocial behaviour lead, (b) established an antisocial behaviour action plan and (c) increased patrols in hotspot areas.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Fingerprints

4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department takes fingerprints from people arriving into the UK illegally.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Workers: Gig Economy

4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025, to Question 62738 on Undocumented Workers: Sharing Economy, how the public can report suspected asylum seekers and irregular migrants working in the gig economy.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Workers: Gig Economy

4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025, to Question 62738 on Undocumented Workers: Sharing Economy, whether spot checks are carried out in suspected hot spots of illegal migrants working in the gig eco

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Drugs: Organised Crime

4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle county lines gangs operating in Lancashire.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Drugs: Organised Crime

4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of people engaged in county lines activity.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Drugs: Organised Crime

4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on tackling county lines gangs in schools.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gender Based Violence: Lancashire

7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce violence against women and girls in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) Lancashire.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Deportation

7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May 2025 to Question 49682 on Deportation, what estimate she has made of the number of those 24,000 people that entered the UK illegally.