Question follow-through · 86603
Deportation and Repatriation: Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many and (b) what value of facilitation payments were made to people subject to (i) deportation and (ii) removal in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum: Appeals · 10 Nov 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many and (b) what value of facilitation payments were made to people subject to (i) deportation and (ii) removal in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
4 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
The information requested regarding the specific value of payments made under the Voluntary Returns Service (VRS) and Facilitated Return Scheme (FRS) are not separately available from published statistics. The Home Office publishes all available informati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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