Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people deported for criminal offences in the last five years had previously been granted (a) asylum and (b) humanitarian protection.

The requested data is not centrally held, and could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

Home Office data systems for collecting and processing data on foreign national offenders in the immigration system are currently being upgraded to improve the quality of information held by the department. For more information, please see this recently published note.