Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed asylum seekers have been deported on non-civilian aircraft in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.

The Home Office does not hold the information you have requested in a reportable format. The Government publishes Immigration Statistics which details the number of enforced removals by year. This can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/how-many-people-are-detained-or-returned#people-entering-detention-and-number-of-enforced-returns-from-the-uk