Question follow-through · 25634
Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people entered the UK on a visa and overstayed in each of the last three years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum: Age Assurance · 3 Feb 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
22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people entered the UK on a visa and overstayed in each of the last three years.
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’.The specific data requested is not routinely published and could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question at ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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