Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who have been denied asylum have been removed from the UK in each of the last five years.
The Home Office publishes data on the number of returns from the UK in each quarter in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly release’. The latest data on Asylum related returns go to the end of March 2021 and are published in Ret_04 and Ret_05 of the returns summary tables.
The Home Office seeks to return people who do not have any legal right to stay in the UK, which includes people who: