Question follow-through · 73802

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those who are recorded as having entered the U.K. illegally were (a) women and (b) men in the most recent period for which data is available.

answeredJim AllisterHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
8 Sept 2025
Answer
8 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those who are recorded as having entered the U.K. illegally were (a) women and (b) men in the most recent period for which data is available.

  2. 8 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on detected irregular arrivals by age group and sex is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to t...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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