Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been returned for the UK to the last safe country they left under the Dublin II Regulation in each calendar year since May 2010.

The Dublin Regulation is helpful in ensuring that asylum seekers who
are the responsibility of another participating Member State can be transferred
from the UK to that member state.

The information requested is shown in the following table. To note, the data
provided is for the entirety of 2010, rather than from May 2010 onwards.

The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are
therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been
quality assured under National Statistics protocols.