Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many voluntary removals were performed in each of the last five years; and how many of those voluntary removals were classified as (a) assisted returns, (b) controlled returns and (c) other verified returns.

The Home Office publishes data on returns from the UK in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

Data on the number of voluntary returns, including type of voluntary return, are published in table Ret_D01 of the returns detailed datasets . https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2019. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the 'summary tables'. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-september-2019#returns

The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on returns. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’. https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=home-office&order=release-date-oldest