Written questions

Deportation: France

Commons · Question 82067 · Tabled 14 Oct 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 22 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Blake Stephenson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of newly arrived illegal migrants that will be deported to France in 2025/26.

Answer

Answered by Alex Norris, 22 Oct 2025

Returns to France under the UK-France returns agreement commenced on 18 September 2025.This is a pilot that we want to expand and therefore the numbers will vary. We will not go into the operational details as this would provide criminal smuggling gangs w...