Question follow-through · 95744

Offenders and Undocumented Migrants

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.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 1 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 3 Dec 2025
Answer: 17 Dec 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1 Dec 2025
Question tabled
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.
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Secretary of State for the Home Department has no plans to commission an independent review into the Department’s handling, recording, and disclosure of absconder data. The Department already undertakes:Regular internal audits and quality assurance ch...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Asylum

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refused asylum seekers are classified as absconders.

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Migrants: Arrests

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of absconders encountered by police have been detained by police in each of the last three years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Bail: Reoffenders

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many absconders released on bail have committed further offences in each of the last three years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration Bail

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what percentage of people on immigration bail absconded again in each of the last three years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Migrants

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the estimated average time is before an absconder going missing and a police report is filed.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Deportation: Appeals

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what percentage of absconders have remained in the UK as a result of (a) unresolved legal appeals and (b) last-minute claims in each of the last three years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Deportation: Travel Requirements

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of absconders could not be removed because their home countries would not issue travel documents in each of the last three years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Migrants: Arrests

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of absconders have only been found after an arrest for a separate offence in each of the last three years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Great Yarmouth

9 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of irregular migrants currently residing in Great Yarmouth and the resource implications for local authorities.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Migrants: Coastal Areas

9 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent the concentration of high-need migrant cohorts in deprived coastal communities such as Great Yarmouth.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crime: Great Yarmouth

9 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of violent and drug-related crime in Great Yarmouth; and whether she plans to provide additional reso