Overview

• The Home Office has formalised a partnership with Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats to receive asylum hotel locations for monitoring gig activity.
• Delivery platforms will implement enhanced facial verification and fraud-detection tools to identify and suspend accounts linked to unauthorised workers.
• Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a nationwide enforcement blitz under the Plan for Change, driving a more than 50% rise in raids and arrests for illegal working.
• Government figures show over 10,000 illegal working visits in the past year have led to more than 7,100 arrests across multiple sectors.
• The upcoming Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill will impose a legal requirement on all employers, including gig platforms, to carry out right-to-work checks.