Question follow-through · 65682
Undocumented Migrants: DNA and Fingerprints
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on recording the (a) DNA and (b) fingerprints of migrants who arrive in the UK illegally.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jul 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on recording the (a) DNA and (b) fingerprints of migrants who arrive in the UK illegally.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jul 2025
Answer published
As per the practice under successive governments, the Home Office collects biometric data, in the form of facial images and fingerprints, from all people who enter the UK illegally where they are aged over five, for the purpose of verifying identity and e...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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