Question follow-through · 102619

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant of Answer of 22 December 2025 to Question 99417: Undocumented Migrants, what steps she is taking to improve the quality of absconder data.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 2 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 6 Jan 2026
Answer: 12 Jan 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant of Answer of 22 December 2025 to Question 99417: Undocumented Migrants, what steps she is taking to improve the quality of absconder data.
6 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Home Office has a dedicated tracing capability that works in partnership with the police, other government agencies, and commercial companies to help identify information on a person. Where tracing checks are successful, we will consider the most appr...

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