Deportation

(asked on 24th June 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many flights for the purposes of deporting people whose asylum or human rights claims were refused were chartered by the Government in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 4th July 2016

Home Office charter flights are used to remove individuals who have been refused asylum in the UK, but also individuals who have committed other immigration and criminal offences. Home Office records indicate that there were 45 charters in 2012, 48 in 2013, 46 in 2014, 38 in 2015 and 18 to date in 2016.

In addition to charter flights the Home Office also removes people via scheduled commercial services.

This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.

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