Asylum: Deportation
(asked on 7th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2016 to Question 27388, how many refused asylum claimants have been forcibly removed to (a) Somalia, (b) Eritrea, (c) Afghanistan, (d) Iraq and (e) Iran.
The table below provides the total number of enforced removals of asylum cases, to Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.
Enforced removals of asylum cases from the UK to Somalia, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, 2015 (1)(2)(p) | ||||||||||
Year | Country of destination | Total asylum enforced removals | ||||||||
2015 | Afghanistan | 73 | ||||||||
2015 | Eritrea | 0 | ||||||||
2015 | Iran | 19 | ||||||||
2015 | Iraq | 23 | ||||||||
2015 | Somalia | 21 | ||||||||
(1) Removals are recorded on the system as at the dates on which the data extracts were taken. | ||||||||||
(2) Recorded on the system as having claimed asylum at some point. | ||||||||||
(p) Figures for 2015 are provisional and may subsequently differ when the tables are revised, due to data cleansing and data matching exercises that take place after the extracts are taken. | ||||||||||
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of persons removed or departed voluntarily from the UK within Immigration Statistics.
The data on removals and voluntary departures by destination are available in the latest release, Immigration Statistics: October to December 2015, table rv.06 from GOV.UK on the statistics web pages at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.