Chris Law – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse of deportation by chartered flights has been in each of the last five years.

James Brokenshire

Home Office records indicate that the cost of chartering aircraft for removal flights over the past 5 years is as follows:

2011/12 – £8.5 million

2012/13- £13.8 million

2013/14 – £12.7 million

2014/15 – £13.2 million

2015/16 – £9.1 million