Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2024 to Question 14503 on Asylum: Deportation, for what reason it would be disproportionately expensive to provide information on the number of flights cancelled; and if he will make it his policy to collect information on the number of flights cancelled in future.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
We are determined to remove those with no right to remain in the UK – including dangerous foreign criminals.
All spending is carefully scrutinised to make sure that every pound of taxpayers’ money is spent in the most effective way.
The Government’s efforts to facilitate entirely legitimate and legal returns of people who have entered the UK illegally are often frustrated by late challenges submitted hours before the flight.
These claims are often baseless and entirely without merit but are given full legal consideration which can lead to removal being rescheduled, this, in some instances, leads to cancellation costs.
The information requested in PQ14503 on cancellation reasons, with specific reference to the costs recorded on page 193 of the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, would require a manual reconciliation of the individual cases against financial records to see if a cancellation cost was levied. This could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Home Office annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Lord Hacking (Labour - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many migrants are currently in accommodation provided by the Government in the UK, and how many are currently eligible for deportation under the Illegal Migration Act 2023.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
As of 30 September 2023, published statistics show that 119,010 asylum seekers are being accommodated. The relevant provisions of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 have not yet been enacted.
Report Oct. 25 2023
Committee: Secondary Legislation Scrutiny CommitteeFound: Drawn to the special attention of the House: Draft Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Removal of Prisoners for Deportation
Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) How can this outdated policy, the 12 months’ cut-off for deportation, be allowed to continue without - Speech Link
2: Lord McNally (LD - Life peer) Could we also hear whether any special programmes are available in advance of deportation, akin to those - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) Of course, we in the Labour Party accept the need to stop irregular arrivals and manage the deportation - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) One of the various points raised by the noble Lord, Lord McNally, was about the deportation of people - Speech Link
Asked by: Matt Vickers (Conservative - Stockton South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to prevent people subject to deportation orders from being able to submit further asylum claims.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Work is underway to bring the provisions in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 relating to priority removal notices and expedited appeals into force as soon as possible. The aim of these measures is to reduce the volume of further claims or repeat claims from those liable to deportation or removal from the UK.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who had previously sought asylum in the UK were subject to (a) enforced and (b) voluntary deportation each year between 1993 and 2010.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes data on returns and asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.
Annual data going back to 2004 for enforced and voluntary returns by return type and back to 2010 for enforced and voluntary asylum-related returns are published in tables Ret_01 and Ret_05 of the ‘Returns summary tables’. Unfortunately, data going back to 1993 is not available.
Data going back to 2001 on initial decisions for asylum applications by case outcome and going back to 2010 on asylum applications awaiting a decision are published in tables Asy_D02 and Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.
Earlier data on Returns can be found in ‘List of tables’ of the year ending June 2019 statistical release.
Earlier data on Asylum applications and decisions from 1993 to 2010 can be found in table as_01 and as_02 in the old table formats, available at: Asylum data tables, volume 1 (opens new file).
Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We are closely monitoring Pakistan’s policy on the deportation of Afghans from Pakistan, and we are working - Speech Link
Correspondence Oct. 25 2023
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: Probation, dated 20 October 2023, regarding the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Removal of Prisoners for Deportation
Jul. 17 2023
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