Question follow-through · 102479
Deportation: France
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were deported to France in each year since 2020.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jan 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- British Nationality and Deportation · 5 Jan 2026
- British Nationality · 5 Jan 2026
- British Nationality: Ceremonies · 5 Jan 2026
- Undocumented Migrants: Sentencing · 8 Jan 2026
- Refugees and Visas: Offenders · 9 Jan 2026
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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
2 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were deported to France in each year since 2020.
6 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’. Data on returns by return type and destination can be found in Ret_D02 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’. Data on returns of FNOs by destination can be fo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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