Question follow-through · 15636
People Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department plans to use to assess the effectiveness of its policy to tackle smuggling gangs involved in illegally trafficking people into 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
- 22 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 26 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department plans to use to assess the effectiveness of its policy to tackle smuggling gangs involved in illegally trafficking people into the UK.
26 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government will make further statements in due course regarding the ways in which progress on its key priorities will be assessed.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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