Written questions

Offenders: Deportation

Commons · Question 30062 · Tabled 10 Feb 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 13 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Sir Julian Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are currently in custody who have exhausted all rights of appeal and have signed deportation orders but have not yet been deported; and what steps her Department is taking to expedite

Answer

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 13 Feb 2025

The number of individuals who simultaneously fall into all these categories cannot be readily obtained from available data, and such a snapshot exercise could only be conducted for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.