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.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
22 Nov 2024
Target answer date
26 Nov 2024
Answer
2 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 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.

  2. 26 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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