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Asylum: Deportation

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many attempts to deport asylum seekers failed because the receiving country refused to accept them in each of the last five years; (181490)

(2) how many attempts to deport asylum seekers failed because the receiving country refused to accept them after the flight had left the UK in each of the last five years.

[holding answer 24 January 2008]: The information requested could be obtained only by the detailed examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.