Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications to the Voluntary Returns Service were processed in each month between January 2021 and July 2023.

We do not routinely publish the information you have requested.

The Home Office publishes statistics on all types of removals from the UK which includes voluntary departures. The latest statistics are available at:

Immigration statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Published datasets for Voluntary Returns are available at:

Returns and detention datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Returns data is published quarterly and the most recent publication provides information on return volumes to the end of Q1 2023.

Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The voluntary return category includes returns which are categorised as assisted and controlled. This includes such returns processed by all Home Office units, including the Voluntary Returns Service.