Question follow-through · 76876

Undocumented Workers: Arrests

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the increase in illegal working arrests involved people who had originally entered the UK on work visas.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
12 Sept 2025
Target answer date
16 Sept 2025
Answer
17 Sept 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the increase in illegal working arrests involved people who had originally entered the UK on work visas.

  2. 16 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The government takes illegal working very seriously, and we are determined to clamp down on the employment of individuals with no right to work in the UK.The specific information requested is not readily available from published statistics and could only ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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