Home Office has no idea how many people have stayed in UK after their visas expired, report warns
A chairman of a committee between a deputy, the government’s visas after the expiry of the Britain after the expiry of the UK, or how to continue to work illegally, he said he could not collect basic information.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which examines the value of government projects, said that he could not analyze the output controls of his home office, as Tories introduced a talented worker visa route in 2020.
After Brexit, approximately 1.18 million people applied to come to England on this route, designed to attract qualified workers.
Approximately 630,000 of them were addicted to the main visa application.
However, PAC said that there was a lack of information about what people do when their visas expired, and that the expansion of the route to attract personnel for the social care sector that struggled in 2022, led to the exploitation of some immigrant workers.
The report added that “the workers who are exposed to debt captivity are widespread evidence that runs over hours and exploitative conditions, but there is no reliable data about the degree of abuse”.
He said that the fact that a person’s right to stay in the UK is dependent on his employers under the sponsorship model means that immigrant workers are “vulnerable to exploitation ..
As the problems begin under the previous conservative government, Revelation will come as a major headache for Yette Cooper, who tries to convince voters voters to understand illegal migration.
New figures, Sir Keir Starmer’s illegal gangs, despite the “shredding” commitment, in the first six months of this year, the number of people showed that the channel is in small boats.
Temporary Interior data has shown that a total of 19,982 people have come to England since the beginning of 2025 – this is the highest total for the half of the year since the first collection of data in 2018.
In the meantime, the figures published earlier this year suggested that thousands of care workers have come to England under the sponsors whose licenses have been canceled later in recent years and suggested the exploitation scale in the system.
The Ministry of Interior said that more than 470 sponsor licenses in the maintenance sector have been canceled between July 2022 and December 2024 in abuse and exploitation pressure.
The department said that more than 39,000 workers have been associated with these sponsors since October 2020.
In his report published on Friday, PAC said: “The response between governments was insufficient to combat the exploitation of migrant workers, and therefore the response of the Ministry of Interior was slow and ineffective.”
He also drew attention to the lack of information about what will happen to people when his visas expired, and the Ministry of the Interior said he said that the only way to tell people still in the country will match their data with airline passenger information.
In the report, he said: “The Ministry of the Interior has not analyzed the output controls since the introduction of the route, and after the expiry of their visas, people returned to their own countries after their expiry of their visas and does not know that the avoidance can work illegally in the United Kingdom.”
Committee President Sir Geoffrey Cliftton-Brown, the former Torah government, “Pandemik during the social care system to help to cope to open the visa system rapidly moved to open the visa system,” the speed and volume of the workers ‘abuse of workers’ abuse of the security and the safety of the safety came to integrated, “he said.
“The evidence of serious problems with the system has once again left naked to our investigation.
“Nevertheless, the basic information seems to have not been gathered by the government, such as how many people in talented workers are victims of modern slavery, and whether people leave the UK after the expiry of their visas.”
At the beginning of this week, the legislation of terminating the recruitment of care workers from abroad was introduced to parliament as a part of immigration reforms.
The movement has been concerned about the adult social care sector, the GMB Union described the decision as “potentially disaster ve and with 130,000 empty positions throughout England.
The Ministry of the Interior believes that there are 40,000 potential personnel members brought by the “bandit” providers who can work in the sector while educating the UK personnel.
Sir Geoffrey warned that “unless there is an inter -governmental work, the risk of further deteriorating difficulties for the maintenance sector”.
The authority said that the government should develop a deeper understanding of the role of migration in the sector’s labor force strategies and how to help domestic labor plans will help to address the skill scarves and “There is no excuse for the global crisis caused by this system instantly and the necessary sloppy crisis”.
Charity The Work Rights Central Policy Manager Adis Sehic said in the report that “the sponsorship system made the immigrant workers vulnerable to exploitation because they tied workers with employers” and “only sponsors trust in the sponsors to comply with the rules of migration”.
“This report is a more harmful evidence that the principle of sponsorship that connects immigrant workers in the UK to their employers is naturally insecure for workers and that they violate human rights according to our opinion.”
Among his suggestions, the Ministry of Interior should work together with the relevant government organs to determine what data is needed, including yaratmak creating an agreed response to combat the risks and consequences of the Ministry of Interior ”and özgün better understanding the effectiveness of organizations to people at the end of their visas and how to better understand the effectiveness of organizations on sponsorship”.
For a comment, the Ministry of Interior was contacted.
