Question follow-through · 65376
People Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been charged for knowingly assisting asylum seekers to enter the UK under s25A Immigration Act 1971 in each month since July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Immigration: Crime · 14 Jul 2025
- Offenders: Deportation · 16 Jul 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
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been charged for knowingly assisting asylum seekers to enter the UK under s25A Immigration Act 1971 in each month since July 2024.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2025
Answer published
In general, charging decisions are made by the Crown Prosecution Service based on the circumstances of each case, and the likelihood of obtaining a conviction for the offence in question. In the twelve months from July 2024 to June 2025 153 individuals we...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Immigration: Crime
14 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been charged for immigration offences in each month since July 2024.
Offenders: Deportation
16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what meetings Ministers in her Department have had with their counterparts in (a) Albania, (b) Poland, (c) Romania, (d) Jamaica, (e) Lithuania, (f) Bulgaria and (g) Vietnam on the removal of foreign n
Gender Based Violence
4 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to publish the strategy to halve violence against women and girls within a decade.