Question follow-through · 72785
Asylum: Reoffenders
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department records the number of repeat offenders within the asylum seeker population.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Migrant Workers: Visas · 5 Sept 2025
- Asylum: Convictions · 5 Nov 2025
- Asylum: Offenders · 5 Nov 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department records the number of repeat offenders within the asylum seeker population.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2025
Answer published
The information you have requested is not available from published statistics.The UK will always offer protection to those in genuine need, but we will not allow our asylum system to be exploited by those who commit crimes or endanger our communities.Any ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Migrant Workers: Visas
5 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the correspondence of July 2025 from the Leader of Kent County Council on visas for social care workers from overseas, if she will publish her Department's response to Kent County Co
Asylum: Convictions
5 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to publish more detailed statistics on criminal convictions among people with pending asylum claims.
Asylum: Offenders
5 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded offences involved individuals with pending asylum applications in the last 12 months.
Undocumented Workers
5 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of individuals working without the legal right to do so in each of the last five years.