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UK Self-employment is at a 10 year high, with a total of 3.8m (13.1% of the working population) currently being self-employed.

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Consultant's Begbies Traynor said employees could use the National Recognition Information Centre website at www.naric.org.uk to check foreign workers' qualifications.

Bosses of Britain's smaller and medium sized companies say up to 20 per cent of CVs they receive are from people outside the country, mainly from new EU members.