UK businesses lost almost £50million in civil penalties for illegal working in the year to July 2016, according to figures revealed by global identity verification platform Onfido, sourced from a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office.
2,943 initial civil penalties costing £49,472,500 were issued between July 2015 and July 2016. This number does not include second or further penalties.
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