Illegal Migrants: Unknown Whereabouts

Debate between Mike Kane and Rupert Lowe

Tuesday 9th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Rupert Lowe]

I do agree with the hon. Member’s helpful intervention. Unvetted and unknown men—sex pests, misogynists, and even far worse—are in our communities, on our streets and near our schools, in the thousands and thousands. This is a national security emergency and must be treated as such.

The evidence is undeniable. I have seen it in Home Office documents. It exists. It is real. The figures were not even disputed by the Home Office; they simply told The Daily Telegraph:

“The Home Office has refused to confirm whether the figures are accurate, saying it does not comment on speculation.”

This is not speculation. This is cold, hard data. The numbers demonstrate quite spectacularly how the Home Office has failed to keep the British people safe. It is an outrageous scandal that this information has been deliberately hidden from the British people. We deserve to know the facts. We deserve to know what is being forced on to our communities. The answer is staggering: 736 foreign criminals gone, disappeared; and 53,298 illegal migrants gone, disappeared. My questions—

[Mike Kane (Wythenshawe and Sale East) (Lab)]

There will be 18 of them.

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[Rupert Lowe]

My questions are these. Where are they now? What is the Minister doing to detain them? Where did they come from? What are their convictions? How has this been allowed to happen?

[Mike Kane]

That was No. 5.

[Rupert Lowe]

I can count, thank you. Why did the Minister mislead the British people? Who is being sacked?