Question follow-through · 16690
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to adopt Recommendation 29 of the report Backdoors to Britain, published by the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire on 4 March 2026.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2026 · 7 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
7 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to adopt Recommendation 29 of the report Backdoors to Britain, published by the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire on 4 March 2026.
9 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Home Office routinely publishes extensive data on the immigration system through the quarterly Immigration System Statistics and the Monthly entry clearance visa applications statistical publications. These are Official Statistics produced by governme...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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