Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many illegal immigrants were deported in (1) August, (2) September, and (3) October.

Deportations are a specific subset of enforced removals which are either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good.

The table below shows the total number of enforced removals including deportations from the UK in August and September 2014

Month Enforced removals

August 2014 918

September 2014 872

Total 1790

The table shows data for August and September only. The Home Office produces data in line with published statistics. Presently held published statistics only go to the end of September 2014.

The latest quarterly statistics covers Q3 of 2014 (July-September). The Q3 data does not cover the month of October 2014 requested in the PQ. Q3 data was published on 27th November 2014 and Q4 data (October-December) is due to be published in late February 2015. The February publication date allows Migration Statistics to quality assure our raw removals/departures data in preparation for publication.