Deportation
Commons · Question 74869 · Tabled 3 Sep 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of foreign nationals living in the UK unlawfully who are liable for deportation.
Answer
Answered by Alex Norris, 21 Oct 2025
By its very nature, it is not possible to know the exact size of the illegal population, or the number of people who arrive illegally, and so we do not seek to make any official estimates of the illegal population. In June 2019, the Office for National St...