Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firms have been prosecuted on more than one separate occasion in Northern Ireland for employing staff who did not have a legal right to be in the UK in each of the last five years.

Since 2014, Immigration Enforcement has prosecuted one individual in Northern Ireland for employing an individual(s) subject to immigration control. Prior to 2014, the Home Office did not hold this information centrally and it could only now be obtained at disproportionate cost.