Question follow-through · 901404

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle illegal migration.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
19 Nov 2024
Target answer date
25 Nov 2024
Answer
25 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle illegal migration.

  2. 25 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Mr Speaker, this Government came to office with a pledge to crack down on the organised crime gangs responsible for the vile trade in people-smuggling across the Channel, working with our counterparts in Europe and beyond, and I am pleased to report that ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Public Opinion

20 Nov 2024 · 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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels

20 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is an official process to inform local residents when a hotel is used to house irregular migrants.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels

20 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels have been used to house irregular migrants since 2018.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels

20 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of providing security services to hotels used for housing irregular migrants was in each year since 2018.

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.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

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.