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Deportation

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainHome OfficeTabled Answered 23 January 2025UIN 23584

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been returned to their country of origin by the Third Country Unit in the last five years.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The Third Country Unit is responsible for inadmissible asylum cases, which may be removed to a safe third country. Data on inadmissibility related removals is published in table Asy_09a of the ‘Asylum and resettlement summary tables’. These returns are to a safe third country, not to an individual’s country of origin.

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