Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were returned to their home countries between (a) 5 July and 31 October 2023 and (b) 5 July and 31 October 2024; and how many and what proportion of those returned since 5 July 2024 (i) left voluntarily, (ii) were forced to return, (iii) were foreign national offenders, (iv) had arrived by small boat, broken down by nationality.

The Home Office published an ad-hoc release containing information about the total number of enforced and voluntary returns from the UK between 5 July and 28 October 2024 and the same period in 2023, on 4 November this year.

The number of returns between July and September 2024 will be published in the Immigration system statistics release on 28 November, with data for the period October to December 2024 published in the release on 27 February 2025. Data in Ret_D01 of the returns detailed tables accompanying the report provide quarterly data broken down by return type (enforced/voluntary/port), nationality and return destination group (Home/EU member state/Other safe country).

The Home Office publishes information about those who by small boat in the Irregular Migration to the UK quarterly release. Quarterly data on enforced and voluntary returns are given by return date in table Irr_02e of the irregular migration to the UK summary tables accompanying the release.