Question follow-through · 87450
Deportation and Repatriation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) voluntary return and (b) deportation schemes since July 2024.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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- 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
3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) voluntary return and (b) deportation schemes since July 2024.
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Home Office publishes all available information on returns expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and accounts at Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK(opens in a new tab)(opens in a new tab)The number of foreign national offenders re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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