Question follow-through · 17973

Undocumented Migrants: Roll-on Roll-off Ships

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department developed plans to use roll-on/roll-off ferries to bring irregular migrants to the UK from France in 2022.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Dec 2024
Answer
12 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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

Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department developed plans to use roll-on/roll-off ferries to bring irregular migrants to the UK from France in 2022.

  2. 6 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    We cannot comment on proposals developed under a previous Government. This Government has no interest in reviving any such plans.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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