Question follow-through · 28532
Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will use sanctions including visa penalties on countries that do not cooperate with the removal of their nationals.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Asylum · 21 Feb 2025
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- Visas: Skilled Workers · 22 May 2025
- Visas: Students · 4 Jun 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
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will use sanctions including visa penalties on countries that do not cooperate with the removal of their nationals.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2025
Answer published
Where cooperation with countries on returns falls below the levels expected, and where appropriate, we stand ready to use all levers available to us to encourage cooperation, including the power to impose visa penalties.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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