Question follow-through · 34694
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who arrived on small boats and have had their asylum application refused have not been deported.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 10 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
28 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who arrived on small boats and have had their asylum application refused have not been deported.
4 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Mar 2025
Answer published
Available data on returns of failed asylum seekers, including those who arrive by small boat, is published on a quarterly basis by the Home Office. The latest data goes to the end of December 2024.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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