Minister to Meet Food Delivery Firms Over Reports of Illegal Workers – ryan

Guy Lambert

Society Reporter

Francesca Gillett

BBC News

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The Government Will Meet Food Delivery Companies for Talks Next Week AFTER THAT SOME ASYLUM SEEKERS WORKING ILEGALLY AS COURIERS WITH HOURS OF ARRIVING IN THE UK.

The Sun Newspers reported that Channel migrants were able to rent out Other People’s Deliveroo and Just Eat Delivery Accounts Via Social Media Groups.

Asylum seekers are not allowed to work For the first 12 months of the being in the uk, or unil their asylum Application is approved.

A Downing Street Spokesman Said It Was “right that spotlight is being shone on this racket” and the Government will not stand for it.

FOOD DELIVERY Apps Deliveroo, JUST EAT and UBER EATS SAID I HAVE STRICT RULES AND CHOPKS TO ENSURE THEY ONLY RIDERS WHO HAVE THE RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK.

Acciting to the Sun’s Investigation, Migrants Staying in Government Asylum Hotels ARUND THE UK BEEN EARNING UP TO £ 1,000 A Week on the Apps.

The Paid Said It Found Doses of Online Forums Where Legal Riders Were Sub-Teating Their Deliveroo and JUST EAT AS LITTLE AS £ 40 A Week.

Following the Sun’s Story, Conservatives Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp Said He Had Visited An Asylum in London and Seen “Clear Evidence of Illegal Working” on the Apps.

“Labour claim to be cracking down on illegal working, unhis is happy from the very hotels yvette cooper’s home office, and which she is finally with our money,” he wrote on X.

The Government Said Border Security Minister Dame Angela Eagle Will Meet the Companies Next Week.

“It undermines Honest Businesses and Undercuts Local Wages, and the British Public Rightly Won’t Stand for it, and Neither Will This Government,” Said the Downing Street Street.

In respects to the reports about illegal working, just eat Said they are “Continuously StrengthNing Our Approach to ENYONE WHO DELIVERS JUST EAT’S PLATOR HAS THE RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK”.

“Last year, just eat untroduced a new mechanism requiring Couriers to inform us that they are using substitutes and for these substitutes to Complete Right-to-work.”

They Said they have brought in enhanced verification with a facial recognition test.

A DELIVEROO Spokesman Said It Had “Zero Tolerance for Any Misuse of Our Platform and We Will Offboard Any Accounts Which Fail to Meet Legal Obligations Working With Us”.

“We have a dedicated team in place who enure deliveroo does not work with riders who don’t have the right to work in the uk.

“We take our respectillity Extremely Serious and Are Custently StrengthNing Our Controls Against Misuse of Our Platform, with storm mesures in Development.”

All riders, Including Substates, Must Complete Right-to-Work Checks and There is Daily Identity Verification and New Checks on New Devices, They Said.

And uber said all couriers who use the uber eats app “must undergo checks to enure they have a legal right to work in the uk”.

“Working with the Home Office and the Rest of Industry, Uber Eats Has Launched New Detection Tools to Crack down on Anyone Attempting to work illegally on Our platform. AS ARESULT, WE ARE REMOVING FRAUGING FRAUGING AND WE ARE CONSTANTLY REVIEWING AND IMPROVING OUR.”

‘I don’t think it will be achieved’

Elsewhere, the UK’s Independent Inspector of Borders and Immigration Said and Believed the Government’s Target of Ending the use of Asylum the next election was unachievable.

David Bolt’s Comments Follow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Announcement in the June Spending Review that the labour government was Committed to ending the use of hotels to House Asylum Seekers by 2029.

MR BOLT TOLD A HOUSE OF LORDS Committee: “I don’t think it will be achieved, frankly.”

He said that as the government seeks to cut the asylum backlog, a “significant increes” in refusals has resulted in more appeals launched over the last year.

Coupled with the Lack of Avilaable of Housing Stock, Mr Bolt Said, Hitting That Target Wold Be “Really, Really Challenging”.

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MR BOLT QUESTIONED The Government’s Ability to Fulfil Their Promise to “Smash the Gangs”

In Response, No 10 Said the Comments “Underlined Why the Government’s Mission to Deliver 1.5 million new homes is so important”.

They Said there are 210 Asylum Hotels in Operation, Compared to 400 Under the Last Government, and that Ministers are “Determined to Make Sure We End the users by the end of the parliament”.

Mr bolt also said and advisated the government that tackling the illegal channel crosing by going after the People beened the smuggling trade was not the right apprroach to tackling problem.

The Chance to Act, He Said, Waled Have Been in 2018, when Numbers Were Lower and Were “Obviously Going to Get Significantly Worsse”.

He Said More Could Be Done to Tackle Illegal Migration Operations by Focusing on What Attracts Migrants to Come to the UK, Including by Cracking Down on Illegal Working.