Asylum: Employment
Commons · Question 93318 · Tabled 20 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Max Wilkinson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Digital ID checks for the right to work on the ability of asylum seekers to compete against British nationals in the job market.
Answer
Answered by Alex Norris, 25 Nov 2025
Asylum seekers who have been granted permission to work are expected to be able to obtain a digital ID for right-to-work checks once the scheme is fully implemented. As announced by the Prime Minister on 26 September, digital checks of an individual’s dig...