Question follow-through · 23573

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many removals of illegal migrants were (a) voluntary and (b) enforced since 2018.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
15 Jan 2025
Answer
20 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many removals of illegal migrants were (a) voluntary and (b) enforced since 2018.

  2. 15 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office publishes statistics on returns from the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’.Data on enforced and voluntary returns from the UK, including the breakdown by nationality can be found in Ret_D01 of the ‘Returns detaile...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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