Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people deported from the United Kingdom have returned illegally in the past three years.

A deportation order requires an FNO to leave the UK and prohibits them from entering the UK while it remains in force. Anyone discovered at the border attempting to do so will be automatically denied entry or detained.

Entering in breach of a deportation order is a criminal offence under section 24(1)(a) of the 1971 Act, so if an individual who was previously deported is found again in the UK, other than at the border, they will again be liable to be detained and returned to prison.

Work is currently underway to publish more detailed information on FNOs subject to deportation.