Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people whose applications to stay in the UK had been refused were returned to Afghanistan in the past five years.
The Home Office publishes data on the number of returns from the UK in each quarter in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly release’. The latest data are published in Ret_D02 of the Returns detailed tables. (See attached for information) This includes information on the number of people returned to each country. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to the year ending December 2020. Data to the end of March 2021 is due to be published on 26 August.
The table below covers the period of Quarter 1 - 2017 to Quarter 1 2021 over the last five years.
| 2017 Q1 | 2017 Q2 | 2017 Q3 | 2017 Q4 | 2018 Q1 | 2018 Q2 | 2018 Q3 | 2018 Q4 | 2019 Q1 | 2019 Q2 | 2019 Q3 | 2019 Q4 | 2020 Q1 | 2020 Q2 | 2020 Q3 | 2020 Q4 | 2021 Q1 |
Grand Total | 13905 | 11912 | 13005 | 12418 | 11656 | 10456 | 11036 | 11445 | 10439 | 9237 | 9004 | 9529 | 7207 | 1495 | 4479 | 5075 | 4565 |
The Home Office seeks to return people who do not have any legal right to stay in the UK, which includes people who:
The published data relate to all returns, regardless of reason for return.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’