Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many chartered flights for the deportation of illegal migrants there were in each of the last five years; and how many such migrants there were on each such flight.
The table below shows the number of flights chartered in each of the last five years, and the total number of individuals who were returned or removed on these flights.
Year | Flights | Individuals |
2020 | 47 | 883 |
2021 | 64 | 1,298 |
2022 | 62 | 1,566 |
2023 | 60 | 2,622 |
2024 | 66 | 3,533 |