Undocumented Migrants: Convictions
Commons · Question 12801 · Tabled 24 Jun 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 13 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of people who have entered Britain illegally in the last three years that have previously been convicted of a crime in another country.
Answer
Answered by Alex Norris, 13 Jul 2026
The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of people who are detected arriving in the UK via illegal entry routes in the Immigration system statistics quarterly release. The published statistics do not show whether those arriving have previously b...