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Home Office

Answer

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were subject to deportation orders in each year since 1997, broken down by country of origin. [223718] Mr. Charles Clarke: [holding answer 4 April 2005]: Information on the total number of deportation orders made between 1997 and 2000 is shown in table 1. From 2001 this information is not available. Deportations are a specific subset of removals alongside persons subject to administrative removal or removal due to illegal entry action. Table 1: Deportation orders made _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Deportation orders made1 1997 1,220 1998 1,020 1999 660 2000 760 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Data rounded to the nearest 5. A breakdown of those subject to deportation orders by country of origin is also not available; however table 2 shows a broad-nationality breakdown of persons removed as a result of deportation action from 1997 to 1999. Data from 2000 onwards are unavailable due to data quality issues. Table 2: Persons removed from the United Kingdom as a result of deportation action1,2 by nationality, 1997-99 United Kingdom _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1997 19983 19993 Europe (including EEA) 350 355 355 Americas 290 295 335 Africa 510 420 290 Indian Sub-continent 240 185 130 Other Asia 130 90 80 Oceania 20 10 10 Other nationalities * 5 5 All nationalities 1.550 1,360 1,210 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Figures for years prior to 1999 exclude persons known to have departed "voluntarily" after enforcement action had been initiated against them. 2 Figures rounded to the nearest 5, where * = 5 or fewer. 3 Nationality breakdowns are estimates. Information on the number of people deported from the UK in 2004 will be available from August on the Home Office's Research Development and Statistics website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1798-800W;432 c1793-4W; 223718

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Deportation Enforcement

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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