Asylum: Deportation

(asked on 11th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed asylum seekers have been deported in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 19th February 2020

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

Data on the number of returns, by year, type of return and asylum and non-asylum related returns are published in table Ret_05.

Asylum-related returns relate to cases where there has been an asylum claim at some stage prior to the return. This will include asylum seekers whose asylum claims have been refused, and who have exhausted any rights of appeal, those returned under third country provisions, as well as those granted asylum/protection, but removed for other reasons (such as criminality). Therefore not all ‘asylum’ cases will relate to failed asylum seekers.

The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.

The latest data relates to the year ending September 2019.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the. https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=home-office&order=release-date-oldest

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