Question follow-through · 16156
Repatriation: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 25 June 2026, to question 11993, what proportion of the voluntary departures were a) at the individual’s expense or b) at the expense of the public purse.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 6 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 25 June 2026, to question 11993, what proportion of the voluntary departures were a) at the individual’s expense or b) at the expense of the public purse.
8 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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14 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’. Data on the number of returns by type of voluntary return since July 2024 can be found in table Ret_D01 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’.The data shows s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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