HC Deb 25 June 1993 vol 227 c280W
Mr. Spellar

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions have been initiated in the last five years for the illegal employment of non-EC persons who do not possess a work permit.

Mr. Charles Wardle

Although it is an offence to take work in breach of conditions of stay, employers do not commit an offence simply by virtue of employing such people.