Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many, if any, refused asylum seekers have had support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 removed.

This question has been interpreted as requesting information on the number of people who have received Section 4 support and been removed from the UK.

Since 2007 we have removed 2301 people who have received Section 4 support.

The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols. This response was obtained by data matching a number of different databases. This is therefore likely to under-report the total figure as it will not capture data where individuals have variances in their personal details recorded on the different databases.