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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...