Question follow-through · 75928

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have entered the UK illegally using forged (a) passports and (b) visas in the last five years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
9 Sept 2025
Target answer date
11 Sept 2025
Answer
17 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have entered the UK illegally using forged (a) passports and (b) visas in the last five years.

  2. 11 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    We do not hold or commission estimates of the number of individuals who may have entered the UK illegally using forged passports or visas over the last five years.However, the Home Office does publish statistics on irregular migration, which include data ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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