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Deportation: Nigeria

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled New UK–Nigeria partnership to speed up removals, published on 19 March 2026, what measures the agreement contains to ensure the protection of

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
24 Mar 2026
Target answer date
26 Mar 2026
Answer
1 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled New UK–Nigeria partnership to speed up removals, published on 19 March 2026, what measures the agreement contains to ensure the protection of

  2. 26 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    On 18 March 2026, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood signed a UK-Nigeria Migration Partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nigerian Interior Minister, the Hon. Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.The Home Office pro-actively engages with key international partne...

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