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Home Office: Staff

Question for Home Office

UIN 55433, tabled on 30 May 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from where the 1,000 staff redeployed into enforcement and returns since 5 July 2024 were moved from.

Answered on

9 June 2025

Since July 2024 the Home Office has redeployed 1,000 FTE staff to increase delivery of the government’s returns and enforcement priorities. These staff have been drawn from across the Department, including from those teams previously deployed to try and make the failed Rwanda scheme work.

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