Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who had previously sought asylum in the UK were subject to (a) enforced and (b) voluntary deportation each year between 1993 and 2010.

The Home Office publishes data on returns and asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Annual data going back to 2004 for enforced and voluntary returns by return type and back to 2010 for enforced and voluntary asylum-related returns are published in tables Ret_01 and Ret_05 of the ‘Returns summary tables’. Unfortunately, data going back to 1993 is not available.

Data going back to 2001 on initial decisions for asylum applications by case outcome and going back to 2010 on asylum applications awaiting a decision are published in tables Asy_D02 and Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.

Earlier data on Returns can be found in ‘List of tables’ of the year ending June 2019 statistical release.

Earlier data on Asylum applications and decisions from 1993 to 2010 can be found in table as_01 and as_02 in the old table formats, available at: Asylum data tables, volume 1 (opens new file).