Question follow-through · 110725
Immigration Controls: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of Operation Gull in Northern Ireland in the last 15 years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 9 Feb 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- UK Border Force: Northern Ireland · 27 Feb 2026
- UK Border Force: Shipping · 14 Apr 2026
- Asylum: Bangladesh and Pakistan · 15 Apr 2026
- Immigration Controls: EU Countries · 13 May 2026
- Undocumented Migrants: Immigration · 12 Jun 2026
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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
4 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of Operation Gull in Northern Ireland in the last 15 years.
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Feb 2026
Answer published
To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office prefers to refer to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication. Information about the effectiveness of Oper...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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