Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 9 February 2021 to Question 149254, how many and what proportion of the UK Government’s return and readmission agreements have provisions for receipt by states of third country nationals, including those considered inadmissible under the UK’s asylum procedure.

We have returns and readmissions agreements with many countries across the world. These agreements provide a formal operational process for effecting returns and readmissions. Though the nature of these agreements varies, several of these agreements have provisions for returning and readmitting third country nationals.

Treaties that have been signed and ratified are in the public domain and the provisions of these are accessible to all. However, some agreements are not published so as to preserve good international relations or for operational reasons. Whether an agreement contains provisions for third country nationals will depend on the particular agreement.