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Offenders and Undocumented Migrants

Commons · Question 95752 · Tabled 1 Dec 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 15 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil servants are assigned to locating absconded foreign national offenders and irregular migrants; and whether performance targets are in place for reducing the size of the absconder pool.

Answer

Answered by Alex Norris, 15 Dec 2025

The cost of collating information on absconders will depend on a range of variable factors, including the level of detail required and where the information is held. Extracting information from multiple databases and datasets may also involve manual scrut...