To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 17 December 2007, Official Report, column 951W, how many of the 72,550 asylum seekers removed from the UK have subsequently reapplied for asylum in the UK. (180110)

[holding answer 21 January 2008]: The requested information is not collated centrally and could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost through the examination of individual cases.