Asylum: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been removed from the UK under the Dublin Convention in each year since 2010.
[Official Report, 13 May 2014, Vol. 580, c. 450W.]
Letter of correction from James Brokenshire:
An error has been identified in the written answer given to the right hon. Member for Delyn (Mr Hanson) on 13 May 2014.
The answer was given as follows: (197239)
The information requested is shown in the following table:
Number | |
|---|---|
2010 | 1,449 |
2011 | 1,308 |
2012 | 970 |
2013 | 1,020 |
Note: The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols. |
Removals fell in 2011 and 2012 because we stopped transferring asylum applicants to Greece under the Dublin Regulation in 2010. This was because it was found conditions there amounted to a breach of article 3 of ECHR. There then followed similar litigation around conditions in Italy, but we are still able to effect transfers there.
The correct answer should have been:
The information requested is shown in the following table:
Number | |
|---|---|
2010 | 1,351 |
2011 | 1,188 |
2012 | 902 |
2013 | 935 |
Note: The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols. |
Removals fell in 2011 and 2012 because we stopped transferring asylum applicants to Greece under the Dublin Regulation in 2010. This was because it was found conditions there amounted to a breach of article 3 of ECHR. There then followed similar litigation around conditions in Italy, but we are still able to effect transfers there.