Question follow-through · 97688
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refused asylum seekers are classified as absconders.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Migrants: Coastal Areas · 9 Dec 2025
- Counter-terrorism and Immigration: Information Sharing · 15 Dec 2025
- Migrants: Detainees · 15 Dec 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refused asylum seekers are classified as absconders.
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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15 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that immigration enforcement and counter-terrorism agencies share intelligence effectively.
Counter-terrorism
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Radicalism
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Radicalism
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Migrants: Detainees
15 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals assessed as posing a national security risk have absconded from immigration control in each of the last five years.
Terrorism: Convictions
15 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals convicted of terrorism-related offences are currently present in the UK following completion of their custodial sentences.