Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of illegal working since the introduction of that offence.
The Ministry of Justice holds data on convictions for illegal working covering the period requested and this can be viewed in the Outcomes by Offence tool: June 2023.
The offence ‘illegal working’ can be found using the following HO code; 19464.
This can be accessed by navigating to the ‘Prosecutions and convictions’ tab and using the HO Offence Code filter to select the above offence in the Outcomes by Offence data tool.