Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many asylum-seekers, except for those from Albania, who failed to establish the right to remain in the UK were removed to either (1) their country of origin, or (2) a third safe country, in the year to 31 December 2022.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum-related returns in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ on gov.uk.

Data on asylum-related returns for the top ten nationalities are published in table Ret_05 of the ‘Returns summary datasets’. Data on returns by nationality and return destination group are provided in Ret_D01 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’, though these are for all returns cases and not just asylum-related.

The latest data relates to September 2022. Data up to December 2022 will be available in the May 2023 release. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.