Question follow-through · 96392
Immigration: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risk of reoffending of individuals convicted of immigration-related offences.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risk of reoffending of individuals convicted of immigration-related offences.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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10 Dec 2025
Answer published
The term “immigration related offences” covers a wide range of offending behaviour including making illegal entry to the country, overstaying leave to remain, employing illegal workers and facilitating breaches of immigration law.As a result, providing re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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