Question follow-through · 21759
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the immigration status of people prosecuted for membership of a rape gang.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Offences against Children · 7 Jan 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the immigration status of people prosecuted for membership of a rape gang.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2025
Answer published
The immigration status of convicted offenders may be disclosed as part of court proceedings, at the discretion of the Judge in each case.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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