Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many removals from the UK under the Dublin Regulation there were in each year since 2005; and what information the Government holds on the number of such removals from other EU countries in each of those years.

The number of people transferred under the Dublin Convention and the later Dublin II and Dublin III Regulations, is shown in the following table:

The UK Government does not centrally hold the number of Dublin removals from other EU countries as the data is collected by Eurostat and is available at:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database

The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.

This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.

All figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.