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Deportation

Volume 486: debated on Tuesday 13 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 18 November, Official Report, columns 318-9W, on deportation, how many of the 63,365 removals from the United Kingdom in 2007 were cases of (a) enforced removals, (b) persons refused entry at port and subsequently removed, including cases dealt with at juxtaposed controls, (c) persons departing voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated against them, (d) persons leaving under assisted voluntary return programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration and (e) persons whom it has been established have left the United Kingdom without informing the immigration authorities. (243430)

The following table shows the number of persons removed, departed voluntarily or left under assisted returns from the United Kingdom in 2007. Information on the number of enforced removals from the UK and persons departing voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated against them are not separately identifiable. This combined category is available broken down to show the number of persons whom it has been established have left the United Kingdom without informing the Immigration Authorities. The figures are rounded to the nearest five and data for 2007 are provisional.

Published statistics on immigration and asylum are placed in the Library of the House and are available from the Home Office's Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:

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

Removals, voluntary departures and assisted returns1, by removal type, 2007

Number of removals2

Period

20073

Non-asylum cases refused entry at port and subsequently removed4

31,145

Enforced removals including voluntary departures after enforcement action had been initiated5, 6

28,065

of which:

left the UK without informing the Immigration Authorities

6,885

Assisted Voluntary Returns7

4,155

Grand Total

63,365

1 Includes enforced removals, persons refused entry at port and subsequently removed (including cases dealt with at juxtaposed controls), persons departing voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated against them, persons leaving under Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration and persons who it has been established have left the UK without informing the immigration authorities.

2 Figures are rounded to the nearest five and may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding.

3 Provisional

4 Includes cases dealt with at juxtaposed controls, persons departing voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated against them and removals which have been performed by Immigration Officers at ports using enforcement powers.

5 Includes persons who it has been established have left the UK without informing the immigration authorities.

6 Excludes Assisted Voluntary Returns.

7 Persons leaving under Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration. May include some cases where enforcement action has been initiated.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people eligible to remain in the UK under the DP5/96 concession have been deported since 2001. (244584)

Information on the number of people deported under the DP5/96 concession is not available and could be obtained only by the detailed examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.