Question follow-through · 66366
Immigration: National Security
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department uses to assess the national security risk posed by migrants from specific countries.
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
- 9 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Deportation: Personal Names · 15 Jul 2025
- Home Office: Staff · 2 Sept 2025
- Asylum: Gaza · 2 Sept 2025
- Refugees: Families · 2 Sept 2025
- Deportation: Sanctions · 3 Sept 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
9 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department uses to assess the national security risk posed by migrants from specific countries.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2025
Answer published
As a matter of longstanding policy, we do not comment on the detail of security and intelligence matters.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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