LONDON Britain's interior ministry has told food delivery firms Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat to implement stricter controls to end the practise of unchecked account sharing by their drivers and riders.

"Unchecked account sharing places the public at risk, enables - and therefore encourages - illegal migration, and leads to the exploitation of workers," Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said in a statement on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Sarah Young; editing by William James)