Question follow-through · 56617
Undocumented Migrants: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost of deporting one million illegal migrants under existing rules for deportations.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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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
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost of deporting one million illegal migrants under existing rules for deportations.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave him on 6 May in response to Question 47960.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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