Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people assigned for deportation have (a) sustained injuries or (b) died (i) immediately before boarding or (ii) onboard deportation flights leaving the UK in each of the last five years.

There have been no deaths over the last five years of people being removed under escort on a flight from the UK.

Published Immigration Enforcement transparency data shows that there were 7,678 attempted escorted removals in 2015, 8,175 in 2016 and 3,873 in 2017 up to 30 June (quarter 2). It can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#immigration-enforcement.

Information on the timing of any injury (whether immediately before boarding or on-board) and the type of escorted removal (whether scheduled or Home Office charter flight) is not readily available from central records and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost through a manual search of individual case files.