Question follow-through · 30027
Undocumented Migrants: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal migrants have been deported since 5 July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 14 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Undocumented Migrants: Arrests · 12 Feb 2025
- Undocumented Migrants: English Channel · 13 Feb 2025
- Deportation · 30 Apr 2025
- Asylum: Mid Leicestershire · 7 May 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
7 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal migrants have been deported since 5 July 2024.
11 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
We pledged to deliver the highest rate of removals since 2018 and this has been surpassed, with a surge in returns activity since the election leading to nearly 19,000 people with no right to be in the UK being removed. Of the total returns since 5 July 2...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
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Undocumented Migrants: Arrests
12 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of illegal migrants arrested by the Border Force in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) Leicestershire and (c) Mid Leicestershire constituency in the last 12 months.
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Asylum: Mid Leicestershire
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Foreign Nationals: Prisoners' Release
19 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of disapplying the Human Rights Act on the removal of foreign national offenders from British prisons.