To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 2 June 2009, Official Report, column 364W, on illegal immigrants, how many (a) removals and (b) voluntary departures there were in each year since 2005. (279622)

The Home Office publishes statistics on removals and voluntary departures from the UK broken down by type on a quarterly and annual basis. The latest published information for the last four years can be found in Table 7c of the quarterly Control of Immigration: Quarterly statistical summary United Kingdom Q4 2008:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/immiq408.pdf