Offenders: Deportation
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the breakdown by country is of Foreign National Offenders deported between 4 July and 31 December 2024.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
The Home Office publishes data on foreign national offenders returned by their nationality and country of return in the Immigration Systems Statistics quarterly release. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets, Year Ending September 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK. The latest data is for September 2024, with data up to December 2024 due to be published on 27 February.
I can also confirm that between 5 July 2024 and 4 January 2025, 2,580 FNOs have been returned either by enforced or voluntary return; this is an increase of 23% compared with the same period 12 months prior.
The published statistics refer to enforced returns which include deportations, as well as cases where a person has breached UK immigration laws, and those removed under other administrative and illegal entry powers that have declined to leave voluntarily. Figures on deportations, which are a subset of enforced returns, are not separately available.
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