Home Department written question – answered at on 20 April 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many voluntary assisted returns to each country were made in co-operation with the International Organisation for Migration in 2008.
The following table shows the number of assisted voluntary returns run by the International Organisation for Migration in 2008, by country of destination.
Assisted voluntary returns from the United Kingdom, by country of destination, 2008( 1, 2) | |
Number of departures | |
Country of destination( 3) | Assisted voluntary returns( 4) |
Albania | 100 |
Macedonia | * |
Moldova | 15 |
Russia | 35 |
Turkey | 40 |
Ukraine | 30 |
EU Accession States(5) | — |
Other Former USSR | 45 |
Other Europe | 105 |
Total Europe | 365 |
Bolivia | 70 |
Brazil | 485 |
Canada | 10 |
Colombia | 50 |
Ecuador | 25 |
Jamaica | 95 |
Mexico | 5 |
USA | 10 |
Other Americas | 45 |
Total Americas | 800 |
Algeria | 35 |
Angola | 15 |
Burundi | * |
Cameroon | 5 |
Congo | 5 |
Dem. Rep. of Congo | 20 |
Eritrea | * |
Ethiopia | 20 |
Gambia | 5 |
Ghana | 55 |
Ivory Coast | 5 |
Kenya | 35 |
Liberia | 5 |
Libya | 15 |
Mauritius | 40 |
Nigeria | 105 |
Rwanda | 5 |
Sierra Leone | 20 |
Somalia | 5 |
South Africa | 130 |
Sudan | 25 |
Tanzania | 10 |
Uganda | 65 |
Zimbabwe | 170 |
Other Africa | 130 |
Total Africa | 935 |
Iran | 235 |
Iraq | 430 |
Syria | 5 |
Other Middle East | 45 |
Total Middle East | 715 |
Afghanistan | 350 |
Australia | 5 |
Bangladesh | 80 |
China (including Taiwan) | 265 |
India | 185 |
Malaysia | 25 |
New Zealand | * |
Pakistan | 305 |
Philippines | 20 |
South Korea | * |
Sri Lanka | 125 |
Thailand | 5 |
Vietnam | 40 |
Other Asia and Oceania | 70 |
Total Asia and Oceania | 1,480 |
Other and not known | * |
Grand total | 4,295 |
(1) Figures rounded to the nearest 5 ('—' = 0, '*' = 1 or 2) and may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding. (2) Provisional figures. Removals and voluntary departures recorded on the system as at the dates on which the data extracts were taken. (3) Destination data as recorded on source database. (4) Persons leaving under the Assisted Voluntary Return and the Assisted Voluntary Return for Irregular Migrants Programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration. May include some on entry cases and some cases where enforcement action has been initiated. (5) EU Accession States: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. |
Published statistics on immigration and asylum are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html
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