[holding answer 30 October 2008]: We have considered deportation for all foreign nationals currently subject to a control order.
The following table shows the number of cases removed or departed voluntarily from the UK between 1998 and 2007. These figures include persons departing voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated against them and since January 1999 persons leaving under assisted voluntary return programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration. These figures exclude non-asylum cases refused entry at port and subsequently removed (including cases dealt with at juxtaposed controls).
Further National Statistics on removals from the UK are available from the Library of the House and Table 6.1 of the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2007 bulletin
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb1108.pdf.
Number 1998 10,860 1999 11,345 2000 13,815 2001 16,940 2002 22,000 2003 29,255 2004 24,990 2005 28,410 2006 31,970 20075 32,220 1 Includes enforced removals, persons departing voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated against them, since January 1999 persons leaving under assisted voluntary return programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration and since January 2005 persons who it has been established have left the UK without informing the immigration authorities. 2 Due to a reclassification of removal categories, figures include asylum removals which have been performed by Enforcement Officers using port powers of removal and a small number of asylum cases dealt with at juxtaposed controls. 3 Excludes non-asylum cases refused entry at port and subsequently removed from the UK (including non-asylum cases dealt with at juxtaposed controls. 4 Figures are rounded to the nearest five. 5 Provisional figures.