Question follow-through · 24171

Passports: Forgery

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for using forged passports at airports in the last 12 months.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
17 Jan 2025
Answer
23 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for using forged passports at airports in the last 12 months.

  2. 17 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular air arrivals to the UK in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK’ statistics release, available at:Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UKWe do not hold central data on the number of ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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