Question follow-through · 96310

Undocumented Workers: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of recent illegal working arrests, how many have been removed from the United Kingdom.

answeredHome Office

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

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of recent illegal working arrests, how many have been removed from the United Kingdom.

  2. 4 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    Details of Immigration Enforcement activity to tackle illegal employment in the UK can be found in the Home Office’s published transparency data: Illegal working and enforcement activity to the end of September 2025 - GOV.UKReturns data can also be found ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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