Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals who had been held in UK prisons were removed on chartered deportation flights in the last 12 months; and what the cost of chartered deportation flights for such foreign nationals has been in the last five years.
In 2015/16, we removed 5,810 Foreign National Offenders (FNOs), the highest number of returns ever. Full details regarding returns and deportations can be found on the Gov.UK website
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2016-data-tables
Details regarding Home Office expenditure can be found on the Gov.UK website.