Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) deported or (b) referred for deportation after reporting domestic violence or abuse in each of the past ten years.

The Home Office publishes statistics on all types of removals from the UK. The latest statistics are available at:

Immigration statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

We do not routinely record allegations of domestic abuse except in cases where a victim makes an application for leave to remain on that basis. We would only record the allegation if the information was volunteered to us and was relevant to the person’s immigration status. Where we are informed of such allegations, they are not recorded in a form which can easily be reported. To provide the data requested would require examination of individual case files which could only be done at a disproportionate cost.