Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) deportation and (b) removal flights were chartered by his Department to (i) Jamaica, (ii) India, (iii) Pakistan, (iv) Bangladesh, (v) China and (vi) Nigeria in each of the last six months.
The table below shows the number of charter flights by country of destination between December 2017 and May 2018. These individual charter flight returns operations consisted of both deportation cases and of those being removed.
Country | December 2017 | January 2018 | February 2018 | March 2018 | April 2018 | May 2018 | Total |
Jamaica | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
India | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pakistan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Bangladesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nigeria* | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
*Charter operated to Nigeria and Ghana.