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Asylum Seekers

Volume 461: debated on Monday 11 June 2007

11. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to remove failed asylum seekers. (141134)

The Border and Immigration Agency employs a raft of measures to maximise the number of failed asylum seekers removed.

13. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of measures to deport failed asylum seekers. (141137)

The effectiveness of measures deployed to remove failed asylum seekers are assessed on an ongoing basis. These measures have ensured that the removal of failed asylum seekers has been steadily increasing over the past few years.