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Undocumented Migrants: Public Opinion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has commissioned public opinion polling on irregular migration in the last five years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
20 Nov 2024
Target answer date
25 Nov 2024
Answer
2 Dec 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has commissioned public opinion polling on irregular migration in the last five years.

  2. 25 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    Contracts are in place for polling on a range of Home Office policy areas, including irregular migration.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Food: Undocumented Migrants

21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on food for irregular migrants housed in hotels in each year since 2018.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Hotels

21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister for Border Security and Asylum to the Urgent Question on Asylum Seekers: Hotel Accommodation of 20 November 2024, Official Report, column 277, i

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Housing

21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will encourage local authorities with (a) hotels and (b) other accommodation housing irregular migrants to impose (i) Public Space Protection Orders and (ii) Community Protection Notices around

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to use (a) section 24(1)(a) of the Immigration Act 1971 and (b) section 2 of the Asylum & Immigration Act 2004 to stop people entering the country via small boats.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Non-crime Hate Incidents

21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2024 to Question 14367 on Non-Crime Hate Incidents, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting data on non-crime hate incidents.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Pupils

22 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether officials from her Department are responsible for collecting irregular migrants attending school at the end of each day.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants

22 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contractors provide what services related to irregular migration at what cost to the public purse.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Housing

22 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with what companies for what services at what cost to the public purse her Department has contracts relating to (a) dispersal and (b) contingency accommodation for asylum seekers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Temporary Accommodation

22 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of irregular migrants in (a) contingency and (b) dispersal accommodation broken down into (i) single and (ii) multiple occupancy rooms, in the lates

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum

22 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that asylum seekers do not fraudulently use sexual orientation as part of the basis of their claim.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum

22 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people whose application for asylum was initially refused were subsequently granted asylum in the last 15 years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Shoplifting: Prosecutions

25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2024 to Question 13342 on Shoplifting Prosecutions, what estimate her Department has made of the (a) number of people who avoided charges and (b) value of goods l