Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 13 July (HL6246), whether they will now answer the question put, namely, what progress they have made towards the deportation of (1) Adil Khan, (2) Qari Abdul Rauf, and (3) Abdul Aziz.

I must continue to reiterate to the noble Lord that I am unable to comment on individual cases.

The Home Office will always ensure that cases such as these are handled with extreme professionalism to ensure that decisions are lawfully made in the best interests of the British public. Any outcome or ongoing consideration of the cases in question will have been made in accordance with legislation.

This Government makes clear that foreign criminals should be deported from the UK wherever it is legal and practical to do so. Foreign national offenders should be in no doubt of our determination to remove them, and since 2010 we have removed more than 53,000.