Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign criminals have avoided deportation in each of the last ten years on the basis of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Home Office faces significant and complex challenges when seeking to return those who have no right to be in the UK to their country of origin or lawful place of return. Despite these barriers, we are fully committed to making our communities safer by returning those who break our laws.

Data on the numbers of appeals on the grounds of Article 8 of the ECHR specifically are not published.

Since this Government came to power almost 10,000 FNOs have been returned, an increase of 36%, and we will continue to do everything we can to remove these vile criminals from our streets.