Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed asylum seekers have been deported to Zimbabwe in each of the last 10 weeks.

The number of enforced returns from the UK to Zimbabwe is published in table rt_05 (returns data tables, volume 5) in ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending June 2018’, available from the GOV.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/734186/returns5-jun-2018-tables.ods

The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.

The data include asylum and non-asylum cases. Asylum cases relate to those who have claimed asylum at any stage as well as those seeking asylum whose application is rejected.

The Home Office do not publish data for individual weeks.