Question follow-through · 100236
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 8th December 2025 to Question 95558, how many of the 153 individuals returned to France under the agreement have subsequently attempted to re-enter the UK illegally.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 8th December 2025 to Question 95558, how many of the 153 individuals returned to France under the agreement have subsequently attempted to re-enter the UK illegally.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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19 Dec 2025
Answer published
Anyone who re-enters illegally may face immediate detention and, where appropriate, we will seek to expedite removal. This will not count as a new removal in the reciprocal scheme. The system is working: two individuals who returned to the UK having alrea...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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