{"value":{"id":1752829,"askingMemberId":5089,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-06T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-09T00:00:00","uin":"22140","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many voluntary deportations took place between 4 July and 31 December 2024.","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":491,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-10T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Home Office routinely publishes data on returns in the “<a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration Systems Statistics</a>” quarterly release. Data on quarterly returns of individuals since July 2024 can be found in table Ret_D01 of the “<a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#returns\" target=\"_blank\">returns detailed datasets</a>”.</p><p>The next full quarterly release, which will include data up to December 2024 is due to be published on the 27<sup>th</sup> February 2025. We have also published interim figures on the 9<sup>th</sup> of January to provide an overview of the number of people who have been returned from the UK since early July.</p><p>Returns are reported in 3 main groups:</p><ul><li>enforced returns (people subject to administrative removal or deportation action which is carried out by the Home Office)</li><li>voluntary returns (people who were liable to removal action or subject to immigration control but have left of their own accord, sometimes with support from the Home Office)</li><li>port returns (people who are refused entry to the UK and have subsequently departed)</li></ul>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Deportation","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1752829","method":"GET"}]}