Delivery Services: Undocumented Workers
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the numbers of delivery drivers working illegally in the UK.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
The Home Office is not able to make an estimate of the number of delivery drivers working illegally in the UK due to the difficulty in estimating the exact size of the irregular population.
No government has produced any official estimates since 2005. As described in joint work between the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Home Office, the definition and coverage of the irregular population is complex.
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