| Heading: |
Undocumented Migrants |
| Question ID: |
1814232 |
| UIN: |
HL8592 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
655 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the number of illegal immigrants in the UK has increased or decreased since 4 July 2024. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-01 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
533 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Hanson of Flint
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Hanson of Flint
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| Answer text: |
By its very nature, it is not possible to know the exact size of the illegal migrant population in the UK, and so the Home Office under successive governments has not been able to publish any official estimates of that population. |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |