Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for Leave to Remove were in each year since 2004; and how many of those applications were made by parents intending to return to a country in the EEA.

Statistics are only published for numbers of children affected by leave to remove applications and orders under section 13 of the Children Act 1989. Specific issue applications and child arrangements applications relating to leave to remove applications are not identified separately in the statistics collected. Information could only be obtained from individual case files at disproportionate cost.

Information on the intended destination of the proposed removal is not collected.