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Deportation

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainHome OfficeTabled Answered 17 September 2025UIN 74964

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff her Department employs to organise deportation flights.

Answered by Alex Norris

Staff working on deportation flights are often deployed flexibly across broader returns and enforcement workstreams. As such, it is not possible to disaggregate staffing figures to isolate those solely focused on deportation flights and obtaining the specific information requested would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams across the Home Office and, therefore, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The Home Office does not hold any central record of the requested information.

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