Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many individuals are currently subject to exclusion orders from the UK; and whether their names are available online to all immigration officers so that they can be prevented from re-entering the UK.

The last Annual Transparency Report on Disruptive and Investigative Powers published in February 2017, reports the number of individuals excluded between 11 May 2010 and 31 December 2015. These exclusion cases primarily cover national security, unacceptable behaviour (such as extremism), international relations or foreign policy, and serious and organised crime. The transparency report February 2017 is attached for reference.

Additional exclusions from the UK are made following convictions for broader categories of criminality, these statistics are not currently published and cannot be provided without a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.

The next Annual Transparency Report, covering data for 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2017, is due for publication in Spring 2018.

All exclusion orders are recorded on a UK watch list which is available to immigration officers.