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<p> </p><p>The average length of time between a deportation order being made on a
foreign <br>national offender and their deportation in each year since 2010 is as
follows: <br>143 days in 2010, 148 days in 2011, 174 days in 2012 and 187 days in
2013. <br><br>The increase in average time taken is driven mainly by serving more
deportation <br>orders earlier in the process, sometimes up to 27 months before sentence
end <br>date, to enable removal to take place as early as possible within the Early
<br>Removal Scheme (ERS) period. The by-product of starting the deportation process
<br>earlier is that we have to wait longer to enforce a person's removal, which <br>artificially
inflates the view on the average time taken to deport.</p><p> </p>
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