Question follow-through · 101725
Asylum: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to her oral answer of 17 November 2025, Official Report column 524, what steps she will take to stop asylum seekers who have committed crimes and are deported making a new asylum application a
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2026 · 33 calendar days after tabling
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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
2 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to her oral answer of 17 November 2025, Official Report column 524, what steps she will take to stop asylum seekers who have committed crimes and are deported making a new asylum application a
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2026
Answer published
We are committed to ensuring that any asylum seeker who commits a serious crime in the UK is not granted asylum and is removed or deported as quickly as possible. If deported, the person is prohibited from returning to the UK as long as the deportation or...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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