Written Question·Home Office·UIN 74869

Deportation

Tabled: 3 September 2025

Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of foreign nationals living in the UK unlawfully who are liable for deportation.

Answer

Alex Norris

By its very nature, it is not possible to know the exact size of the illegal population, or the number of people who arrive illegally, and so we do not seek to make any official estimates of the illegal population. In June 2019, the Office for National St...

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