Deportation: Children

(asked on 20th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been removed under immigration powers with their parents in the last 12 months; and how many of those children were British citizens.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 25th March 2019

The Home Office publish data on the number of children leaving detention by year and quarter. This shows 63 children leaving detention of which 22 were removed from the UK between January and December 2018 and confirms no children were British. (Found in the Detention Data Tables, dt_09 and dt_08 respectively).

The latest available data are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending December 2018’ at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018-data-tables

Between August 2017 and July 2018, 478 families were returned from pre-departure accommodation. (Found in the Immigration Enforcement Data, PDA_01).

This can be seen in the transparency data published on 28 February 2019:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-february-2019

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