Undocumented Workers: Gig Economy
Commons · Question 62738 · Tabled 25 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) asylum seekers and (b) irregular migrants without the right to work in the UK working in the gig economy.
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 4 Jul 2025
The Home Office does not hold an estimate of the number of people working illegally in the gig economy. The recent joint work between the Office for National Statistics and the Home Office explains the complexities - Measuring illegal migration: our curre...