Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people without criminal records have been deported under Operation Nexus.

Operation Nexus involves joint working between Immigration Enforcement and police forces.

All cases that have been identified from this partnership would have come into contact with the police and subsequently brought to our attention. Our records system however is only designed to record immigration related data and therefore any data regarding criminal records is not aggregated in national reporting systems.

This means the question could only be answered through a disproportionately expensive manual case search to collate the data.