Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Commonwealth citizens legally residing in the UK have been (a) deported and (b) detained in error by her Department in each of the last five years; and what her Department's policy is on issuing apologies to those detained in error.

Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.

All complaints to Immigration Enforcement are investigated. An apology will be offered where it is found that an error has been made.