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Deportation and Repatriation: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of money paid to individuals (a) deported and (b) removed from the UK since July 2024.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
31 Oct 2025
Target answer date
4 Nov 2025
Answer
11 Nov 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of money paid to individuals (a) deported and (b) removed from the UK since July 2024.

  2. 4 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 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 informatio...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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