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<p>The Home Office does publish statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders
by nationality and year. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets,
Year Ending December 2023; which are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#returns"
target="_blank">Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The
term ‘deportations’ refers to a legally defined subset of returns, which are enforced
either following a criminal conviction, or when it is judged that a person’s removal
from the UK is beneficial to the public good. The published statistics refer to enforced
returns which include deportations, as well as cases where a person has breached UK
immigration laws, and those removed under other administrative and illegal entry powers
that have declined to leave voluntarily. Figures on deportations, which are a subset
of enforced returns, are not separately available.</p>
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