Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals who entered the UK via a small boats crossing have been removed from the UK before submitting an asylum claim, following initial processing at the former Ministry of Defence site in Manston, Kent, in each month since January 2022; and what proportion of those individuals were (a) Albanian and (b) of other nationality.

No migrants have been removed from the UK directly from the facility at Manston without the required notification period as set out in published guidance. Where a person is refused entry on arrival to the UK, and they are removed within 7 days of refusal, there is no requirement to provide an additional notice period for removal. Individuals are only refused entry to the UK following an interview, and the reasons for the refusal are explained to them prior to removal. All persons have the opportunity to claim asylum during this process. No one has been removed whilst they had a pending asylum claim.