Question follow-through · 94434

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are in the total absconder pool of foreign national offenders for which the latest data is available.

answeredHome Office

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A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 25 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 27 Nov 2025
Answer: 5 Jan 2026 · 41 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are in the total absconder pool of foreign national offenders for which the latest data is available.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics.Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of Answers to Parliamentary written questions on absconded foreign national offenders and irregular migrants.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants in the total absconder pool (a) have been located, (b) have been removed from the UK and (c) remain at large as of the most recent date for which data is available.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

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1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the foreign national offenders included in the total absconder pool have (a) been re-apprehended, (b) been deported and (c) remain untraceable.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offenders and Undocumented Migrants

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