Question follow-through · 104500

Visas: Guantanamo Bay

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2025 to Question 76596 and the Answer of 12 January 2023 to Question 119101 on Guantanamo Bay: Closures, whether her Department's policy on granting visas to forme

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
9 Jan 2026
Target answer date
2 Feb 2026
Answer
2 Feb 2026 · 24 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2025 to Question 76596 and the Answer of 12 January 2023 to Question 119101 on Guantanamo Bay: Closures, whether her Department's policy on granting visas to forme

  2. 2 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    The first priority of Government is protecting national security and the safety of UK citizens.The Home Office uses various tools to detect and disrupt travel by those posing a national security risk and all applications for visas or UK immigration status...

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