Question follow-through · 9996
Undocumented Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of irregular migrants in the UK.
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
- 18 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
18 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of irregular migrants in the UK.
22 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
By its very nature, it is not possible to know the exact size of the irregular migrant population. In June 2019, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a note on ‘measuring illegal migration’.The Home Office does publish statistics on detected...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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