Written questions

Deportation: Human Rights

Commons · Question 227 · Tabled 13 May 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 21 May 2026

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of deportation or removal cases in which claims made under Articles 2, 3 or 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights have delayed or prevented removal acti

Answer

Answered by Mike Tapp, 21 May 2026

We are committed to the European Convention on Human Rights. However, to retain public confidence in our policies on irregular migration, asylum and criminal justice, the European Convention on Human Rights and other instruments must evolve to face modern...