Asked
Whether her Department has made an estimate of how many polygamous marriages are valid in the UK.
Reply
The Home Office does not collect data on polygamous marriages
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Written questions by Hayes.
Every parliamentary written question tabled by John Hayes this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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Asked
Whether Ministers in her Department have met the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change since 5 July 2024.
Reply
Meetings are regularly published in our quarterly transparency returns.
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What recent estimate her Department has made of how many people are living in the UK illegally.
Reply
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 the Home Office does not seek to make any official estimates of the illegal population. In June 2019, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a note on ‘measuring illegal migration’.The Home Office does publish statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK as part of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK’ quarterly statistics release. However, this does not indicate the number of irregular migrants currently in the UK.
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