Offenders: Deportation

(asked on 18th October 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many convicted foreign-born criminals were deported in the last 12 months.


Answered by
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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 26th October 2023

The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum-related returns by return type (including enforced returns of which ‘deportations’ are a legally defined subset) are published in table Ret_05 of the ‘Returns summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on returns. Data on returns of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) are published in table Ret_D03 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’ and are broken down by nationality not by country of birth. Data on FNO returns aren’t broken down by return type however the vast majority will be enforced returns, of which ‘deportations’ are a legally defined subset.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data for returns relates to end March 2023.

Asylum-related returns relate to cases where there has been an asylum claim at some stage prior to the return. This will include asylum seekers whose asylum claims have been withdrawn, refused, and who have exhausted any rights of appeal, those returned under third country provisions, as well as those granted asylum/protection, but removed for other reasons (such as criminality).

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.

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