Mr David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr David Hanson on 2014-03-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time was between a deportation order being made on a foreign national offender and their deportation in each year since 2010.

James Brokenshire

The average length of time between a deportation order being made on a foreign
national offender and their deportation in each year since 2010 is as follows:
143 days in 2010, 148 days in 2011, 174 days in 2012 and 187 days in 2013.

The increase in average time taken is driven mainly by serving more deportation
orders earlier in the process, sometimes up to 27 months before sentence end
date, to enable removal to take place as early as possible within the Early
Removal Scheme (ERS) period. The by-product of starting the deportation process
earlier is that we have to wait longer to enforce a person’s removal, which
artificially inflates the view on the average time taken to deport.