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Undocumented Workers: Fines

Commons · Question 78004 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 15 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Derek Twigg

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many businesses were (a) fined and (b) prosecuted for employing illegal immigrants each year since 2015.

Answer

Answered by Alex Norris, 15 Oct 2025

In 2015, 2206 civil penalties were issued for illegal working. Information on illegal working civil penalty statistics has been published since 2016 as part of the Home Office Immigration Transparency Data and can be found at https://assets.publishing.ser...