Home Office written question – answered at on 28 April 2026.
Chris Philp
Shadow Home Secretary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders were not removed from the United Kingdom in the most recent year for which data is available because of an Article 3 ECHR medical claim.
Chris Philp
Shadow Home Secretary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportation orders against foreign national offenders have been suspended, revoked or not enforced as a result of an Article 3 ECHR medical claim in each year since 2016.
Chris Philp
Shadow Home Secretary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for leave to remain have been granted on Article 3 ECHR medical grounds in each year since 2016.
Alex Norris
The Minister of State, Home Department
The information that you have requested about Article 3 ECHR and deportation is not available from published statistics.
We are fully committed to making our communities safer by returning those who break our Laws, which is why in the period between this government coming to power and January 2026, over 8,700 foreign national offenders (FNOs) have been returned from the UK. This is a 32% increase on the FNO returns recorded in the previous nineteen-month period ending June 2024, and we will continue to do everything we can to remove these vile criminals from our streets.
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