Question follow-through · 74092

Undocumented Migrants: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people working in the UK illegally after their visa has expired.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 2 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 4 Sept 2025
Answer: 10 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people working in the UK illegally after their visa has expired.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Home Office does not currently hold a reliable estimate of the number of individuals working in the UK following the expiry of their visas.The government takes illegal working very seriously, and we are determined to clamp down on the employment of in...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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