Question follow-through · 45266
Deportation: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have absconded while awaiting deportation after lodging legal appeals in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 25 Apr 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Visas · 17 Apr 2025
- Immigration: Appeals · 24 Apr 2025
- Immigration: Appeals · 24 Apr 2025
- Deportation · 24 Apr 2025
- Deportation · 24 Apr 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
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have absconded while awaiting deportation after lodging legal appeals in each of the last five years.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Apr 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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