Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Bajuni asylum seekers have been deported to (a) Kenya and (b) Tanzania in each of the last three years.

The number of enforced returns from the UK, country of nationality, destination (Home/EU/other), and whether the return is asylum-related is published in table rt_04 (returns data tables, volume 3). The number of returns from the UK by country of destination, and whether the return is asylum-related is published in table rt_05 (returns data tables, volume 5)

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

The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.

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 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).

Data on the number of Bajuni (or other ethnic groups) asylum seekers is not separately identifiable from the published statistics and would involve a manual review of individual cases to identify.