§ Mrs. Curtis-ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many employers have been fined for employing illegal immigrants under section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 in each year since 1997. [177843]
§ Mr. BrowneInformation on the number of employers in the UK who were prosecuted for employing illegal immigrants is not available and therefore information on the numbers of these employers successfully prosecuted is not available.
However information on persons proceeded against for employing a person subject to immigration control under section 8 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1996, together with the penalties imposed, is shown in the table.
Information on those people proceeded against under the Immigration Acts between 1997 and 2002 was published on 27 November 2003 in the command paper "Control of Immigration:
Statistics United Kingdom 2002" (Cm 6053), a copy of which can be found in the Library of the House. Comparable statistics for 2003 will be published later this year in the command paper "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2003".