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Migrant Workers: Domestic Service

Asked by Max WilkinsonLiberal DemocratDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 13 January 2026UIN 102919

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how the Fair Work Agency will assist migrant domestic workers experiencing abuse in private households.

Answered by Kate Dearden

The Fair Work Agency will enhance the UK's ability to respond to exploitation of migrant domestic workers. It will bring together labour market enforcement functions and include new powers to investigate and take action against offences under the Fraud Act 2006. These powers, when operational, will allow the FWA to pursue certain cases of deception, abuse of position or withholding pay, where conduct does not meet the higher modern slavery threshold.

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