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Borders: Personal Records

Asked by Mr Clive BettsLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 15 September 2025UIN 76241

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2025 to Question 67814 on Borders: Personal Records, whether her Department has an accurate count of the number of people leaving the UK.

Answered by Mike Tapp

As a consequence of the Common Travel Area arrangements, including travellers who leave the UK via the land border with Ireland, there is a marginal difference between the number of individuals recorded leaving the UK and the overall number of individuals who leave the UK.

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