Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been deported in each year since 2005.

The Home Office publishes data on returns from the UK in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release). Data on the number of returns, by year, from 2010 are published in table Ret_D01 (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets) within the returns detailed dataset. Data prior to 2010 are published in table rt_01 in the Returns data tables volume 1 of Immigration Statistics, year ending June 2019 second edition (attached).

The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.

Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the Summary Tables (attached) . The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on returns. The latest data relates from 2010 to the year ending March 2020.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’ (https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=home-office&order=release-date-oldest).

Information on the number of individuals served with a Deportation Order would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.