Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people with rejected asylum applications were removed in each year since 2019.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum and returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’. Data on initial decisions on asylum applications including refusals by date of refusal are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.

Data on asylum-related returns by date of removal are published in table Ret_05 of the ‘Returns summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on returns.

The latest data relate to the end of September 2023.