Written Question·Home Office·UIN 16156

Repatriation: Expenditure

Tabled: 6 July 2026

Answered: 14 July 2026

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 25 June 2026, to question 11993, what proportion of the voluntary departures were a) at the individual’s expense or b) at the expense of the public purse.

Answer

Alex Norris

The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’. Data on the number of returns by type of voluntary return since July 2024 can be found in table Ret_D01 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’.The data shows s...

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