Question follow-through · 12801
Undocumented Migrants: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of people who have entered Britain illegally in the last three years that have previously been convicted of a crime in another country.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jul 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of people who have entered Britain illegally in the last three years that have previously been convicted of a crime in another country.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of people who are detected arriving in the UK via illegal entry routes in the Immigration system statistics quarterly release. The published statistics do not show whether those arriving have previously b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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