Question follow-through · 65158
Undocumented Migrants: Fingerprints
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department takes fingerprints from people arriving into the UK illegally.
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
- 4 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department takes fingerprints from people arriving into the UK illegally.
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon Member to the answer given on 18 June to Question 58584.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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