[holding answer 10 June 2009]: The requested information is not available. The following table shows the number of removals and voluntary departures from the United Kingdom to Zimbabwe between January and March 2009, by month and type of departure. This is the latest period in 2009 for which published information is available.
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
Number of departures4 January February March Quarter 1 2009 Total removals and voluntary departures to Zimbabwe 10 30 30 75 Of which: Non-asylum cases refused entry at port and subsequently removed5 * * — 5 Enforced removals and notified voluntary departures6 5 5 5 15 Assisted voluntary returns7 5 20 25 50 Other voluntary departures8 * 5 * 10 1 Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 (— = 0, * = 1 or 2) and may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding. 2 Destination as recorded on source database. 3 Provisional figures. Figures will under record due to data cleansing and data matching exercises that take place after the extracts are taken. 4 Removals and voluntary departures recorded on the system as at the dates on which the data extracts were taken. 5 Includes removals performed by immigration officers at ports using enforcement powers and cases dealt with at juxtaposed controls. 6 Since October 2006, figures include persons leaving under Facilitated Return Schemes. 7 Persons leaving under Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes run by the International Organization for Migration. May include some on-entry cases and some cases where enforcement action has been initiated. 8 Persons who it has been established left the UK without informing the immigration authorities.