Question follow-through · 109442

Migrants: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people without leave to remain were removed from the UK in each of the last five years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
2 Feb 2026
Answer
6 Feb 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people without leave to remain were removed from the UK in each of the last five years.

  2. 2 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’. Data on returns can be found in Ret_01 of the ‘Returns summary tables’. This data goes up to September 2025 and includes only individuals who do not have v...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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