§ Sir Ivan LawrenceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many overstayers have been removed from the United Kingdom in each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. Nicholas BakerThe information available relates to persons removed following deportation action in respect of a breach of conditions to enter or remain. Such persons comprise mainly overstayers but also include persons working in breach of conditions. Data on such persons removed, and those who departed voluntarily when served with a notice of intention to deport, in 1984–93 are given in table 7.3 of "Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom, 1993"—Cm 2637—a copy of which is in the Library. The corresponding numbers of removals and voluntary departures in 1994 were 1,264 and 199 respectively.