Repatriation

Damian Green

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many voluntary assisted returns to each country were made in co-operation with the International Organisation for Migration in 2008. (269178)

The following table shows the number of assisted voluntary returns run by the International Organisation for Migration in 2008, by country of destination.

*Assisted voluntary returns from the United Kingdom, by country of destination, 2008*^{1, 2}
Number of departures
Country of destination³	Assisted voluntary returns⁴
Albania	100
Macedonia	*
Moldova	15
Russia	35
Turkey	40
Ukraine	30
EU Accession States⁵	—
Other Former USSR	45
Other Europe	105
Total Europe	365

Bolivia	70
Brazil	485
Canada	10
Colombia	50
Ecuador	25
Jamaica	95
Mexico	5
USA	10
Other Americas	45
Total Americas	800

Algeria	35
Angola	15
Burundi	*
Cameroon	5
Congo	5
Dem. Rep. of Congo	20
Eritrea	*
Ethiopia	20
Gambia	5
Ghana	55
Ivory Coast	5
Kenya	35
Liberia	5
Libya	15
Mauritius	40
Nigeria	105
Rwanda	5
Sierra Leone	20
Somalia	5
South Africa	130
Sudan	25
Tanzania	10
Uganda	65
Zimbabwe	170
Other Africa	130
Total Africa	935

Iran	235
Iraq	430
Syria	5
Other Middle East	45
Total Middle East	715

Afghanistan	350
Australia	5
Bangladesh	80
China (including Taiwan)	265
India	185
Malaysia	25
New Zealand	*
Pakistan	305
Philippines	20
South Korea	*
Sri Lanka	125
Thailand	5
Vietnam	40
Other Asia and Oceania	70
Total Asia and Oceania	1,480

Other and not known	*
Grand total	4,295
¹ Figures rounded to the nearest 5 (‘—’ = 0, ‘*’ = 1 or 2) and may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding. ² Provisional figures. Removals and voluntary departures recorded on the system as at the dates on which the data extracts were taken. ³ Destination data as recorded on source database. ⁴ Persons leaving under the Assisted Voluntary Return and the Assisted Voluntary Return for Irregular Migrants Programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration. May include some on entry cases and some cases where enforcement action has been initiated. ⁵ EU Accession States: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

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

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

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009