To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum applicants were removed from the UK under the terms of the Dublin Convention in 2008. (291426)

[holding answer 26 September 2009]: In 2008, under the Dublin Convention and Dublin Regulations II, 1,242 asylum seekers were removed.

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