Minister to meet food delivery firms over reports of illegal workers

The government will meet food distribution companies for negotiations next week, after the report that some refugee are working illegally as couriers within a few hours of arrival in Britain.

The Sun newspaper reported He was capable of renting delivery of the channel migrants and eating delivery accounts through social media groups.

asylum seekers Work is not allowed For the first 12 months of being in the UK, or until their refuge application is approved.

A Downing Street spokesman said that it is “right that the spotlight is shining on this racket” and the government will not stand for it.

Food delivery apps Delivu, Just Eats and Uber Eats stated that they have strict rules and to ensure that they only use riders who have the right to work in the UK.

According to Surya’s investigation, migrant apps living in government refuge hotels around the UK are earning £ 1,000 per week.

Paper said that it found dozens of online forums, where legal riders were being featured to their delivery and just eat less as £ 40 in a week.

After the story of Surya, Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Filp said that he had visited a London in London and saw “clear evidence of illegal work” on the apps.

He said, “Labor is claiming to be decreasing on illegal work, yet it is happening very much from the hotel, Yett Cooper’s house office is running, and which she is funding with our money,” she wrote on X.

The government said that Border Security Minister Dame Angela Eagle would meet companies next week.

Downing Street’s statement said, “It weakens honest businesses and reduces local wages, and the British people will not stand properly for it, nor will it be the government.”

In response to reports about illegal work, Just Eat stated that they are constantly strengthening our approach to ensure the right to work in the UK for anyone who continuously distributes through the platform of bricks “.

“Last year, the EAT introduced a new mechanism, which requires a courier to inform us that they are using the option and to complete the correct check check for these options.”

He said that he has brought increased verification with facial recognition tests.

A delivery spokesman said that he had “zero tolerance for any misuse of our platform and we would close any account that fails to fulfill our legal obligations while working with us”.

“We have a dedicated team that ensures that delivery does not work with riders who do not have the right to work in the UK.

“We take our responsibility very seriously and are constantly strengthening our control against the misuse of our platform, with further remedies.”

All riders, including options, should complete the right-to-work check and have daily identification verification and new checks on new equipment, he said.

And Uber said that all couriers who use the Uber Eats app, “must undergo a check to ensure that they have the legal right to work in the UK”.

“Working with the home office and the rest of the industry, Uber Eats has launched new detection tools to tighten any person trying to work illegally on its platform. As a result, we are removing fraudulent accounts and we are constantly reviewing and improving our procedures.”

Somewhere else, the independent inspector of Britain’s border and immigration said that he believes that the government’s goal was unacceptable to end the use of asylum hotels before the next election.

Follow David Bolt’s comments Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ announcement in June expenditure review The labor government was committed to ending the use of hotels for shelter seekers by 2029.

Mr. Bolt told the House of Lords Committee: “I don’t think it will be achieved, clearly.”

He said that as the government attempts to cut the shelter backlog, more appeals have started in the previous year as a result of “significant growth” in refugees.

Together with the lack of availability of housing stock, Mr. Bolt said, killing that goal would be “really, really challenging”.

In response, No 10 stated that the comments “underlined that the government’s mission is so important to distribute 1.5 million new houses”.

He said that under the final government there are 210 asylum hotels compared to 400, and ministers “firm to ensure that we end the use of hotels by the end of Parliament”.

Mr. Bolt also said that he advised the government that there was no right approach to deal with the problem of dealing with the illegal channel crossing after the smuggling business.

The opportunity to act, he said, in 2018, when the number was low and “clearly going to be quite worse”.

He said that more can be done to deal with illegal migration operations, which focuses on what the migrants attract to enter the UK, including the breakdown of illegal work.