Question follow-through · 7406
Undocumented Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of how many people are living in the UK illegally.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of how many people are living in the UK illegally.
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2024
Answer published
By its very nature, it is not possible to know the exact size of the illegal population, or the number of people who arrive illegally, and so the Home Office does not seek to make any official estimates of the illegal population. In June 2019, the Office ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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