Question follow-through · 83466

Deportation: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many removal flights to France are planned under the current pilot scheme in the next three months.

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Home Office
Tabled
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
22 Oct 2025
Answer
27 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many removal flights to France are planned under the current pilot scheme in the next three months.

  2. 22 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 27 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    Returns to France under the UK-FR returns agreement commenced on 18 September 2025. This is a pilot that we want to expand and therefore the numbers will vary. We will not go into the operational details as this would provide criminal smuggling gangs with...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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