Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse of deportation by chartered flights has been in each of the last five years.

Home Office records indicate that the cost of chartering aircraft for removal flights over the past 5 years is as follows:

2011/12 - £8.5 million

2012/13- £13.8 million

2013/14 - £12.7 million

2014/15 - £13.2 million

2015/16 - £9.1 million