David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-04-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been removed from the UK under the Dublin Convention in each year since 2010.

James Brokenshire

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Year 2010 2011 2012 2013
People Removed 1449 1308 970 1020

Removals fell in 2011 and 2012 because we stopped transferring asylum
applicants to Greece under the Dublin Regulation in 2010. This was because it
was found conditions there amounted to a breach of Article 3 of ECHR. There
then followed similar litigation around conditions in Italy, but we are still
able to effect transfers there.

NB: The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are
therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been
quality assured under National Statistics protocols.