Speeches

Baroness Jowell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Jowell on 2016-03-02.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people have been deported by the UK to each EU country under the terms of Dublin III per year since that Regulation came into force.

Lord Bates

The Dublin III Regulation came into force on 1 January 2014. The table below indicates the number of removals per EU country in that time.

Dublin Convention III returns to EU countries (2010 to 2015)

The number of removals under Dublin Convention III regulation for 2010-2015 as indicated by our records are shown in the table below.

Destination of Return

2014

2015

Austria

20

35

Belgium

35

35

Bulgaria

*

15

Croatia

5

*

Cyprus

*

*

Czech Republic

*

*

Denmark

*

10

Estonia

0

0

Finland

*

*

France

20

40

Germany

20

45

Greece

0

0

Hungary

10

30

Ireland

40

40

Italy

80

150

Latvia

0

0

Lithuania

*

*

Luxembourg

0

0

Malta

5

*

Netherlands

10

15

Norway

10

10

Poland

*

*

Portugal

0

*

Romania

*

*

Slovakia

*

5

Slovenia

*

0

Spain

5

5

Sweden

10

15

Switzerland

15

5

Totals 285 455

NOTE “*” represents figures below 3.