Question follow-through · 988
Immigration: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the government is making to establish a returns and enforcement unit, with an additional 1,000 staff.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 19 May 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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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
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the government is making to establish a returns and enforcement unit, with an additional 1,000 staff.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2026
Answer published
Since July 2024, the Home Office has focussed on the return of failed asylum seekers, foreign criminals and immigration offenders whom the system was previously unable to progress. To support this work, the Home Office redeployed 1,000 full-time equivalen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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