To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many deportations on grounds that a person remaining in the UK would not be conducive to the public good have taken place in the last 12 months. (178113)

In his public announcement of 14 January, I provided the most robust and accurate information available on foreign national prisoners. I confirmed that in 2007 over 4,200 foreign national prisoners have been removed or deported from the United Kingdom.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many deportations of persons seeking asylum were not completed because the receiving country refused to accept them (a) before and (b) after the flight returning them had left the UK in the last 12 months. (185626)

[holding answer 18 February 2008]: The information requested could be obtained only by the detailed examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.