Question follow-through · 74271

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of what the pull-factors are that are encouraging illegal immigration to the UK.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 2 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 4 Sept 2025
Answer: 10 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline

2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of what the pull-factors are that are encouraging illegal immigration to the UK.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2025
Answer published
There is no single, universal ‘pull’ factor independently driving irregular migration to the UK. In many cases, asylum seekers are directed or even coerced by organised criminal networks.The Government’s Plan for Change sets out our ambition to secure bor...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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