Question follow-through · 286
Immigration Controls: Undocumented Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people absconded from ports of entry after being detained by Border Force officers in each year since 2010.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 26 Jul 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people absconded from ports of entry after being detained by Border Force officers in each year since 2010.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jul 2024
Answer published
The Home Office are unable to provide the requested data. This is on the basis the information requested is not available in a reportable format.The Home Office are relentless in the pursuit of those who seek to enter the UK illegally. Our extensive secur...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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