Speeches

Sarah Teather – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-04-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration detainees left the UK through the assisted voluntary returns programmes in each of the last five years.

James Brokenshire

For the last five years, the numbers of detainees who have left the UK annually
through AVR programmes are as follows:

Year Detainees departing through AVR
2009 585
2010 824
2011 848
2012 1150
2013 2081

The figures provided are sourced from a Home Office management information
system which is not quality assured under National Statistics protocols and is
subject to change due to internal data quality checking. Figures provided from
this source do not constitute part of National Statistics and should be treated
as provisional.