Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many removals of illegal migrants were (a) voluntary and (b) enforced since 2018.

The Home Office publishes statistics on returns from the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’.

Data on enforced and voluntary returns from the UK, including the breakdown by nationality can be found in Ret_D01 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’. This data covers the period 2004 to September 2024.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.