To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many failed asylum seekers were removed in each month since 1 January 2005; what the monthly predicted number of unfounded asylum applications was for each such month; in how many months the Government met their tipping point policy since the policy was introduced; and if she will make a statement on the future of the tipping point target. (206271)

Monthly removals figures can be found in the quarterly statistics publications at the following address:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html

Levels of predicted unfounded asylum applications and whether the tipping point target has been met for 2004, 2005 and 2006 can be found on the UK Border Agency website at the following address:

http://ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/aboutus/reports/publicperformancetarget/

Monthly information for the tipping point target was not available prior to January 2006.

The 2007 data are not yet available.