Written Question·Home Office·UIN 114319

Assisted Voluntary Return Schemes

Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026

Question

Shivani Raja

ConservativeLeicester East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse has been of the Voluntary Return scheme, including (a) financial assistance payments, (b) flights and travel costs, (c) casework and staffing costs and (d) reintegrat

Answer

Alex Norris
The information requested regarding the number of individuals who departed under a voluntary return scheme and subsequently re-entered the UK is not available from published statistics.The Home Office publishes all available information on returns expendi...

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