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Undocumented Workers: Gig Economy

Asked by Mr Andrew SnowdenConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 4 July 2025UIN 62738

The question

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.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

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 current view - Office for National Statistics.

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