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Offenders: Deportation

Asked by Sir Julian SmithConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 13 February 2025UIN 30062

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are currently in custody who have exhausted all rights of appeal and have signed deportation orders but have not yet been deported; and what steps her Department is taking to expedite

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The number of individuals who simultaneously fall into all these categories cannot be readily obtained from available data, and such a snapshot exercise could only be conducted for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

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