Question follow-through · 9507
Undocumented Migrants: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were detained for attempting to enter Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland illegally in each of the past five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were detained for attempting to enter Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland illegally in each of the past five years.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2026
Answer published
As part of the Common Travel Area (CTA) arrangements, the UK does not operate routine immigration controls on journeys from Ireland to the UK, with no immigration checks being undertaken on the Ireland-Northern Ireland land border.The UK does however carr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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