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Deportation: Children

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 24 February 2025UIN 30352

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under 18 and travelling alone have been deported since 4 July 2024; and to which countries they were deported.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The information requested is not available from published statistics and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

The Home Office does publish the quarterly statistics on the returns of FNOs by nationality, destination and year. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets, Year Ending September 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK.

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