Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of exit checks conducted by Border Force which identified people seeking asylum in the UK attempting to return to their country of origin in 2022.

Officers conduct exit checks as part of specialist operations. If an individual with an open asylum claim leaves the UK without authorisation at any time before the conclusion of their application for asylum, they are deemed to have implicitly withdrawn their claim. Each incident is considered on a case by case basis, and we do not routinely comment on individual cases.