Deportation: Young People
(asked on 16th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under the age of 18 have been returned to (a) their country of nationality and (b) a third country by her Department in the last 12 months.
The table below shows the removals and voluntary departures of people under 18 by destination for the 12 month period to September 2014, the latest date for which figures have been published.
| Removals and voluntary departures, people aged under 18, by destination | ||||
| 12 months to year ending September 2014 | Destination: Country of nationality | Destination: Other | Total | |
| Total enforced removals | 60 | 30 | 90 | |
| Total refused entry at port and subsequently departed | 370 | 749 | 1,119 | |
| Total voluntary departures | 1,776 | 555 | 2,331 | |
These figures are provisional and may subsequently differ when the tables are revised, due to data cleansing and data matching exercises that take place after the extracts are taken.
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of persons removed or departed voluntarily from the UK within Immigration Statistics. The data on removals and voluntary departures are readily available
in the latest release, Immigration Statistics: July – September 2014, from the GOV.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.