Immigration: Enforcement
Commons · Question 988 · Tabled 13 May 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 19 May 2026
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the government is making to establish a returns and enforcement unit, with an additional 1,000 staff.
Answer
Answered by Alex Norris, 19 May 2026
Since July 2024, the Home Office has focussed on the return of failed asylum seekers, foreign criminals and immigration offenders whom the system was previously unable to progress. To support this work, the Home Office redeployed 1,000 full-time equivalen...