Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many repeat deportations there were in each of the last ten years.

Available statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders (FNOs) are published on a quarterly basis in the Returns Detailed Datasets, and are currently available to the end of June 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) The next update will be published on 28 November 2024.

A deportation order requires a person to leave the UK and prohibits them from lawfully entering the UK while it remains in force. Entering in breach of a deportation order is a criminal offence under section 24(1)(a) of the 1971 Act, with a maximum sentence of five years.

Any FNO who enters the UK in breach of a deportation order will be returned to custody to finish any remaining time of their custodial sentence and will be swiftly removed on completion of their sentence.

We have already begun delivering a major surge in immigration enforcement and returns activity to remove people with no right to be in the UK, with 9,400 people already being returned since the new government came into power.