Question follow-through · 27043

Undocumented Migrants: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of an increased police presence around schools that have reported loitering by irregular migrants.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 28 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 30 Jan 2025
Answer: 5 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of an increased police presence around schools that have reported loitering by irregular migrants.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 19 November to Question UIN 13616.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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