Question follow-through · 27483
Borders and Deportation: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a Department for Borders and Deportation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Migrant Workers · 30 Jan 2025
- Asylum: Applications · 31 Jan 2025
- Deportation · 7 Feb 2025
- Immigration: Enforcement · 7 Feb 2025
- Immigration: Enforcement · 7 Feb 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
29 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a Department for Borders and Deportation.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Home Office is the department for border security, including overseeing the establishment of Border Security Command and delivering more than 16,400 deportations of people who have no right to be here since July 2024.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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