Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who have arrived on small boats since 4 July 2024 have been deported.

The Home Office publishes data on small boat returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on quarterly enforced and voluntary returns of people who arrived by small boat, by return date, are published in table Irr_02e of the ‘Irregular Migration to the UK summary tables’.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the end of September 2024. Data to the end of December 2024 will be published on 27^th February.

Deportations are a specific subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. The deportation order prohibits the person returning to the UK until such time as it may be revoked. Data on deportations are not published separately.