Overview

• The Home Office reported that Immigration Enforcement officers stopped 1,780 people and arrested 280 suspected illegal workers between July 20 and 27 in a week-long operation targeting delivery riders
• Civil penalties were issued to 51 businesses, including car washes and restaurants, for employing people without the right to work
• Enforcement teams seized 71 vehicles—58 of them e-bikes—alongside £8,000 in cash and £460,000 worth of illicit cigarettes
• An additional £5 million has been allocated to enforcement teams to extend operations against unauthorised labour in the gig economy
• Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat are rolling out daily facial scans and fraud checks while charities warn the measures risk scapegoating asylum seekers barred from work