Question follow-through · 100235
Undocumented Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to publish sector-specific data on illegal working enforcement outcomes, including gig-economy sectors.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to publish sector-specific data on illegal working enforcement outcomes, including gig-economy sectors.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Home Office takes the issue of illegal working seriously and continues to take robust enforcement action against those who breach immigration laws.Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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