Offenders and Undocumented Migrants: Deportation
Commons · Question 28531 · Tabled 4 Feb 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Chris Philp
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will accelerate deportations of (a) foreign national offenders and (b) illegal immigrants.
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 12 Feb 2025
We pledged to deliver the highest rate of removals since 2018 and this has been surpassed, with a surge in returns activity since the election leading to nearly 19,000 people with no right to be in the UK being removed in the first six months this governm...