Written Question·Home Office·UIN 103112

Undocumented Migrants: Offenders

Tabled: 5 January 2026
Answered: 12 January 2026
Named Day

Question

Mr Peter Bedford

ConservativeMid Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department holds an estimate of the number of criminals in the UK that arrived in the country by irregular means.

Answer

Alex Norris
The information you have requested regarding the number of foreign criminals in the UK who arrived by irregular means is not available from published statistics.However, foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforce...

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