Question follow-through · 99416
Undocumented Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to establish the number of illegal migrants whose whereabouts are unknown.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to establish the number of illegal migrants whose whereabouts are unknown.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
Answer published
The nature of absconding is complicated because individuals frequently come in and out of contact. Whilst the Home Office has processes for the recording of absconder events, and for seeking to bring such individuals back into contact, the recording of in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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