Two government ministers correct errors after Full Fact interventions

We’re grateful to minister without portfolio, Anna Turley MP, and under-secretary of state in the Wales Office, Anna McMorrin MP, for correcting immigration-related errors after we got in touch.

Ms Turley, who is also chair of the Labour party, deleted a Facebook post that inaccurately claimed 50,000 people had been “deported” since Labour came into office. As our fact check about an earlier set of ad hoc data explained, the figure she used referred to the total number of immigration returns, which includes both voluntary returns as well as enforced returns (the category which includes deportations).

According to the Home Office, between 1 July 2024 and 31 October 2025, 48,560 returns were recorded, 36,031 (74%) of which were voluntary. We don’t know exactly how many of the 12,529 enforced returns during this period matched the official definition of a deportation.

Ms McMorrin corrected claims about asylum hotels that she made last month in two separate answers at the despatch box in the House of Commons. She originally said that “hotel use has nearly halved since the last election” and “... in the past year we have halved the use of hotels”. The written record has now been corrected to say that hotel use “has halved since its peak in the summer of 2023”.

The number of asylum hotels peaked at over 400 under the previous Conservative government, but had fallen to 213 when Labour took office in July 2024. As our fact check explains, the number of asylum hotels in use declined by a net of three during Labour’s first year in office.

Ms McMorrin’s correction was in line with the ministerial code, which states: “It is of paramount importance that ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity.”