Question follow-through · 58108
Undocumented Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the merits of commissioning an independent study to produce an updated estimate of the number of illegal migrants in the UK.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 6 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the merits of commissioning an independent study to produce an updated estimate of the number of illegal migrants in the UK.
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2025
Answer published
I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer I gave him on 30 January to Question 25047.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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