Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders of which nationality were deported in each of the last five years.

The Home Office publishes data on returns of foreign national offenders (FNOs) in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly release’. Data on total returns of FNOs by nationality can be found in table Ret_D03 of the ‘returns detailed datasets’, with the latest data going up to the end of June 2024. Figures on FNO returns are not broken down by return type, and include enforced returns, voluntary returns and a small number of FNOs refused entry at port and subsequently returned.

Deportations are a specific subset of total FNO returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. The deportation order prohibits the person returning to the UK until such time as it may be revoked.

The Home Office does not regularly publish information about FNO appeals. However, in February 2022 an ad-hoc transparency piece on FNO lodged and allowed appeals, covering the period 2008 to 2021, was released. This provides numbers of FNO appeals lodged, and the numbers of those which are subsequently allowed, and of those how many were allowed on human rights grounds only, broken down by financial year of the appeal lodged date.

Data on the number of individuals arriving in the UK by small boat broken down by sex is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration detailed datasets’. This release covers the period 2018 to June 2024.