Immigration

House of Lords written question – answered at on 28 January 2014.

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Photo of Lord Kilclooney Lord Kilclooney Crossbench

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the number of illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom.

Photo of Lord Taylor of Holbeach Lord Taylor of Holbeach The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

It is not possible accurately to quantify the number of immigration offenders in the UK as, by their very nature, those that deliberately evade immigration control to enter and stay in the country illegally are not officially recorded until they come to light and are arrested.

Rather than attempt to do so, the Government is taking action to crack down on illegal immigration. We have reformed all major routes of entry to the UK for non-EEA migrants. We have increased the skill level required to come for work, tackled abuse in the student sector, reformed family visas and are introducing further reforms in the Immigration Bill to prevent abuse and the flouting of the law by people who should not be here.

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