Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) armed forces veterans and (b) their dependents have been deported in each of the last 10 years.

The information is not available to the level of detail requested as armed forces veterans are not exempt from any deportation provisions.

The Home Office publishes data on Returns in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of Returns from the UK by return type (including enforced returns) are published in table Ret_01 of the Returns ‘summary tables’.

Our priority will always be to keep the British public safe and the Government is clear that foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes, whether or not they are armed forces veterans, should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.