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Home Office

Answer

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what change there has been in the rate of removals of failed asylum seekers in each of the last five years. [196621] Mr. Browne: The latest available information on the number of asylum seekers removed is shown in the table. Removals, voluntary departures1, assisted returns, of asylum applicants, January 1999 to June 2004 2 Number of persons _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Principal asylum applicants Dependants removed 3 Total removed 3 removed 19994 7,665 -- -- 20004 8,980 -- -- 20014 9,285 1,495 10,780 2002 10,740 3,170 13,910 20035 13,005 4,890 17,895 Q1 20045 3,320 765 4,085 Q2 20045 3,130 595 3,725 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Includes enforced removals, persons departing `voluntarily' following enforcement action being initiated against them, persons leaving under Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration. 2 Figures rounded to the nearest 5, and may not sum due to rounding. 3 Data on dependants removed not available before April 2001. 4 Figures may include a small number of dependents leaving under Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes 5 Provisional figures Provisional statistics for the number of persons removed during the third quarter of 2004 was published on 16 November, on the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at http://www. homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

196621; 426 c2043-4W;426 c2049-50W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Asylum Deportation

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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