Question follow-through · 24
Sham Marriage
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to tackle sham marriages.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 22 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to tackle sham marriages.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2026
Answer published
The Government takes abuse of the immigration system, including sham marriages and civil partnerships, extremely seriously. Family migration must be based on a genuine and subsisting relationship, and where this is not the case the Home Office will take r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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