To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were removed from the UK by immigration officials in each of the last five financial years. (151500)

[holding answer 23 July 2007]: Statistics on the number of persons removed from the UK in the calendar years 1995-2005 are published in the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2005 Command Paper. Information on persons removed in 2006 was published on 21 August 2007 in the Command Paper Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2006. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and on the Home Office's Research, Development and Statistics website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.