Written Question·Home Office·UIN 114319
Assisted Voluntary Return Schemes
Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026
Question
Shivani Raja
Conservative — Leicester 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 NorrisThe 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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