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Returns from the UK and enforcement activity

I haven't drafted this item, because the source text can't support it. The assignment is a note on family returns from the UK between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. The source contains no such note. It has four other attachments, all updated 8 October 2026:

Returns from the UK and enforcement activityReturns from the UK and enforcement activity

I haven't drafted this item, because the source text can't support it. The assignment is a note on family returns from the UK between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. The source contains no such note. It has four other attachments, all updated 8 October 2026:

  • Northern Ireland enforcement activity, 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2026
  • Returns from the UK, 1 July 2024 to 31 July 2026
  • Illegal working and enforcement activity to the end of June 2026
  • Marriage referral and investigation scheme disruptions, 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025

None of them covers family returns, and the 2023 to 2025 period appears only in the marriage referral data. The 5 March 2026 event date also doesn't match anything in the source. A draft on family returns would fail the fact check and couldn't be published.

To move this forward, I need one of the following:

1. The family returns note itself, or the correct URL or attachment text, and I'll write the Report item from that. 2. A different item from this source. The most useful one is probably the returns statistics: 80,286 returns from 1 July 2024 to 31 July 2026, and 78,137 in the two years to 30 June 2026, up 52% on 51,542 in the two years before. I could add a `bars` or `before_after` infographic. Illegal working enforcement, Northern Ireland enforcement and marriage referral scheme disruptions would each work as a separate Report item.

Tell me which you want.

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