To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Bokhari family deported on 22 January 2007 were offered Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme financial help with resettlement in return for departing voluntarily. (118868)

Throughout the asylum process individuals are made aware of the Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme (VARRP). The scheme is extensively promoted by IND but the onus is on individuals to apply to the scheme in order to benefit.