Question follow-through · 100248

Home Office: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to answer Questions (a) 97729 and (b) 97730, tabled by the hon. Member for Bicester and Woodstock on 5 December 2025.

answeredHome Office

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
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
18 Dec 2025
Answer
18 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to answer Questions (a) 97729 and (b) 97730, tabled by the hon. Member for Bicester and Woodstock on 5 December 2025.

  2. 18 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Honourable Member will receive a response shortly.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police Custody

18 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures are in place to prevent a person detained in police custody who has been identified as requiring an assessment by Liaison and Diversion services from being given an out of court disposal

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Detention Centres

22 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 4 of the Statement of National Importance for Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre, published in March 2026, what the evidential basis is that current demand for immigration de

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Detention Centres

22 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the occupancy rate was across the immigration detention estate in each of the last 12 months.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre

22 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the needs assessment accompanying the Statement of National Importance for the Phase 2 expansion of Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre

22 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department applied in determining that the Phase 2 expansion of Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre meets the threshold of national importance under Regulation 4(c)(iii) of the Tow

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre

22 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the estimated capital and annual operating cost is of the Phase 2 expansion of Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre; and what the cost per detention bed is.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre

24 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of 240 additional detention beds at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre on the number of enforced returns.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Detention Centres

24 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people detained across the immigration removal estate are (a) time-served foreign national offenders, (b) immigration offenders, (c) refused asylum seekers and (d) detained while th

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offenders: Repatriation

24 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of time-served foreign national offenders were (a) deported immediately (b) detained in Immigration Removal Centres pending deportation and (c) released pending deportation for each of

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: MOD Bicester

29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of previous proposals to develop MoD Bicester for asylum accommodation; and for what reason those proposals were not taken forward.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: MOD Bicester

29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department used to assess the suitability of MoD Bicester for use as asylum accommodation.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: MOD Bicester

29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a formal review has been undertaken of previous proposals to use MoD Bicester for asylum accommodation.