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My hon Friend the Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum (Alex Norris) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
The Government is today laying regulations to strengthen the Right to Work and Right to Rent Schemes, alongside updated statutory codes of practice for employers and landlords. These measures...
My hon Friend the Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum (Alex Norris) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
The Government is today laying regulations to strengthen the Right to Work and Right to Rent Schemes, alongside updated statutory codes of practice for employers and landlords. These measures...
The Government is today laying regulations to strengthen the Right to Work and Right to Rent Schemes, alongside updated statutory codes of practice for employers and landlords. These measures implement provisions in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 and will come into force in October 2026, in line...
The Government is today laying regulations to strengthen the Right to Work and Right to Rent Schemes, alongside updated statutory codes of practice for employers and landlords. These measures implement provisions in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 and will come into force in October 2026, in line...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure people working as riders for food delivery companies have the right to work in Britain.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure people working as riders for food delivery companies have the right to work in Britain.
Clamping down on illegal working is a critical part of this Government’s work to restore fairness, order and control within the immigration and asylum system. This includes measures in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act to ensure companies who utilise flexible worker models, as seen in the food delivery sector, are required to conduct right to work checks to prevent illegal working when they contract workers to provide services under their company name.
These new legislative measures will restrict the ability of employers to take advantage of illegal workers and encourage businesses to provide work opportunities to only those permitted to work in the UK. It will provide parity across industries and will set a level playing field for businesses to uphold their responsibilities to prevent illegal working in the UK.
The Government intends to publish the response to the 'Consultation on the prevention of illegal working: Extending the Right to Work Scheme to other working arrangements' alongside updated guidance and statutory codes of practice in due course.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to increase the rate of (a) detention and (b) deportation for people found to be working illegally as delivery riders in Britain.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to increase the rate of (a) detention and (b) deportation for people found to be working illegally as delivery riders in Britain.
Illegal working undermines honest employers, undercuts local wages, and fuels the criminal industry of immigration crime. This government is determined to clamp down on this illegal activity in every sector; including in the food delivery sector.
Since coming into power, this government has increased immigration enforcement action to the highest level, with an 83 percent rise in illegal working arrests and a 77 percent rise in raids.
We are clear that individuals who have no legal basis to remain in the United Kingdom should leave and we remain resolute in our commitment, as set out in our Restoring Order and Control: a statement on the Government’s asylum and returns policy (November 2025), to increasing returns.
Returns and deportations of illegal migrants, including those working illegally and foreign criminals, are at the highest levels in nearly a decade, with nearly 70,000 returns recorded in the first 21 months of this government, 41% more than the equivalent period up to the end of June 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department has considered the potential merits of increasing the judicial penalty for illegal working in relation to riders for food delivery companies.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department has considered the potential merits of increasing the judicial penalty for illegal working in relation to riders for food delivery companies.
Clamping down on illegal working is a critical part of this government’s work to restore fairness, order and control within the immigration and asylum system. We have changed the law to ensure companies who utilise flexible worker models, as seen in the food delivery sector, are required to conduct right to work checks to prevent illegal working when they contract workers to provide services under their company name.
The existing penalty regime attached to the Right to Work Scheme will apply to these new arrangements and penalties will be enforced, set at £45,000 per illegal worker encountered for a first breach and up to £60,000 for repeat breaches. The penalties sit within this government’s programme of intensified enforcement activity which has seen a 63% increase in illegal working arrests.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of illegal working in high street businesses in Fylde constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of illegal working in high street businesses in Fylde constituency.
Illegal working undermines honest employers, undercuts local wages, and fuels the criminal industry of immigration crime.
This government is determined to clamp down on this illegal activity in every sector. All enforcement activity is intelligence‑led, ensuring action is targeted at the highest risk sectors and businesses.
The Home Office does not publish constituency level assessments, including for Fylde, but monitors trends nationally and regionally.
In October 2025, Operation MACHINIZE 2, a multi‑agency operation targeting the criminal exploitation of high street businesses, resulted in over 900 arrests, alongside referral notices for illegal working and significant seizures of criminal proceeds and illicit goods.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many random checks have been made in each month of 2025-6 of the immigration status of food and grocery deliver riders; and what steps are they taking to ensure that traders using the services of delivery riders employ only those with correct immigration status.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many random checks have been made in each month of 2025-6 of the immigration status of food and grocery deliver riders; and what steps are they taking to ensure that traders using the services of delivery riders employ only those with correct immigration status.
Immigration enforcement activity is intelligence led and targeted, focusing on known risk, harm, and noncompliance rather than randomised inspections.
Clamping down on illegal working continues to be a critical part of this Government’s work to restore fairness, order and control within the immigration and asylum system. As such, through the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025, the Government has introduced tough new laws to clamp down on illegal working. This means that for the very first time, the Right to Work Scheme and associated civil penalties for non-compliance, will be extended to cover companies who contract workers to provide services under their company name; such as online delivery platforms in the gig economy, to conduct checks on a person’s right to work, and be liable for sanctions where illegal working is identified.
Alongside legislative change, the Home Office continues to engage with a range of businesses, including delivery companies operating in the gig economy, to promote compliance with illegal working legislation. This includes raising awareness of right to work requirements, supporting the use of compliant right to work checks, encouraging the use of robust identity and verification checks and taking enforcement action where employers or facilitators are found to be exploiting migrants or failing to meet their legal responsibilities.
The Home Office and the Department for Business and Trade have been working closely with major food delivery platforms. In 2025, Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat committed to increasing the use of facial verification checks and fraud detection technology to ensure only account holders and their registered substitutes can work off their platforms. This strengthened industry standard has resulted in the firms increasing the quantity and sophistication of checks they already conduct, with checks taking place daily.
Today I am announcing the launch of the Government’s High Streets Organised Crime Unit, a new cross-government unit designed to strengthen our response to money laundering, tax evasion, illegal working, and other forms of organised criminality taking place on our high streets.
The criminal exploitation of the high street has...
Today I am announcing the launch of the Government’s High Streets Organised Crime Unit, a new cross-government unit designed to strengthen our response to money laundering, tax evasion, illegal working, and other forms of organised criminality taking place on our high streets.
The criminal exploitation of the high street has...
My hon Friend the Minister of State for Security (Dan Jarvis) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
Today I am announcing the launch of the Government’s High Streets Organised Crime Unit, a new cross-government unit designed to strengthen our response to money laundering, tax evasion, illegal working, and other...
My hon Friend the Minister of State for Security (Dan Jarvis) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
Today I am announcing the launch of the Government’s High Streets Organised Crime Unit, a new cross-government unit designed to strengthen our response to money laundering, tax evasion, illegal working, and other...
This note discusses the process by which National Insurance numbers (NINOs) are allocated and the uses to which they are put.
This note discusses the process by which National Insurance numbers (NINOs) are allocated and the uses to which they are put.
Motions to consider. Agreed to on division (9 to 2) and agreed to on division (9 to 1).
Motions to consider. Agreed to on division (9 to 2) and agreed to on division (9 to 1).
Lords motion to approve. Agreed to on question.
Lords motion to approve. Agreed to on question.
My Lords, these instruments—the Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum-Seekers) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 and the Asylum Seekers (Reception Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026—were laid before the House on 5 March 2026. They relate to the Government’s stance that asylum support should be provided in a manner which is...
My Lords, these instruments—the Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum-Seekers) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 and the Asylum Seekers (Reception Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026—were laid before the House on 5 March 2026. They relate to the Government’s stance that asylum support should be provided in a manner which is...
My Lords, I see some of the same noble Lords in their places for this debate that were here for the debate last Tuesday. I trust that the Minister is feeling much better.
As with last week, these SIs on asylum support leave much unclear and have been tabled before the...
My Lords, I see some of the same noble Lords in their places for this debate that were here for the debate last Tuesday. I trust that the Minister is feeling much better.
As with last week, these SIs on asylum support leave much unclear and have been tabled before the...
My Lords, I declare my interest as a RAMP associate. As the noble Baroness, Lady Teather—who I think of as a noble friend—said in her deeply moving speech, for the second week running we are here debating secondary legislation that represents another step in what the Home Secretary has described...
My Lords, I declare my interest as a RAMP associate. As the noble Baroness, Lady Teather—who I think of as a noble friend—said in her deeply moving speech, for the second week running we are here debating secondary legislation that represents another step in what the Home Secretary has described...
My Lords, I find myself in the happy position again of agreeing with the Government. I commend them for these regulations, which go some way to addressing the risk of abuse of our asylum support system. These changes are a good start, but they could go further. I have one...
My Lords, I find myself in the happy position again of agreeing with the Government. I commend them for these regulations, which go some way to addressing the risk of abuse of our asylum support system. These changes are a good start, but they could go further. I have one...
My Lords, I congratulate the Home Office on its direction of travel, but I have a few points I think it needs to consider to get this right. It would be helpful if the Home Office were to publish more regularly the gender breakdown of asylum seekers so that we...
My Lords, I congratulate the Home Office on its direction of travel, but I have a few points I think it needs to consider to get this right. It would be helpful if the Home Office were to publish more regularly the gender breakdown of asylum seekers so that we...