Undocumented Migrants: EU countries

(asked on 12th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal migrants have been (a) successfully returned to EU countries and (b) booked on to planes to return to EU countries but where the place has not been taken up, in 2020 to date; and what the cost was in each case.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 23rd November 2020

The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on the number of returns and by nationality to EU Member States are published in table Det_D01 of the returns detailed datasets. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending June 2020.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.

Providing the information requested on the number of those where removal did not proceed and the costs in each case would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.

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