Home Department written question – answered at on 17 July 2013.
Keith Vaz
Chair, Home Affairs Committee, Chair, Home Affairs Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal workers were (a) identified, (b) arrested, (c) charged and (d) deported as a result of enforcement raids on restaurants in each year since 2008.
Mark Harper
The Minister for Immigration
The Home Office carries out enforcement visits to a variety of premises for the purpose of tackling illegal working. Data concerning the number of individuals found in the course of such enforcement visits is given in the following table in respect of premises identified as restaurants. The table shows the number of individuals encountered and arrested in the course of such visits. The table also shows the number of these individuals who are recorded as having subsequently left the UK.
For immigration purposes the number of individuals who have been charged is synonymous with the number of individuals arrested since the service of papers for immigration offences normally takes place during the course of an individual's arrest.
| Number of individuals encountered | Number of individuals arrested | Individuals subsequently removed | |
| 2008 | 6,637 | 2,079 | 662 |
| 2009 | 5,462 | 1,701 | 540 |
| 2010 | 7,112 | 2,051 | 733 |
| 2011 | 6,953 | 2,051 | 881 |
| 2012 | 6,907 | 2,351 | 932 |
| (Q1) 2013 | 2,180 | 651 | 225 |
| Note: All figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols. | |||
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