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<p>The Home Office is unable to report on how many people have been deported who applied
for asylum in the UK based either in part or wholly on their sexuality or gender identity
and fear of persecution in their home countries in each year since 2010 by country
of origin, as the Home Office do not publish data on asylum claims based on gender
identity or expression. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate
costs.</p><p>The Home Office remains committed to publishing information on the number
of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation broken down by nationality.</p><p>On
29 November 2018, the Home Office published experimental statistics on Asylum claims
made on the basis of sexual orientation, covering the period 2015 to 2017.</p><p>These
experimental statistics provide data on asylum claims from 2015-2017, by year of application,
initial decision, appeal receipt, or appeal decision</p><p>Data on the number of asylum
claims on the basis of sexual orientation can be found in tabs SOC_00 in the experimental
statistics in the link provided below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#asylum-on-the-basis-of-sexual-orientation"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#asylum-on-the-basis-of-sexual-orientation</a></p><p>These
are the latest data available, and the next planned update to these statistics is
in August 2019.</p><p><br>Deportations are a subset of enforced returns. They may
occur either following a criminal conviction, or when it is judged that a person’s
removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported
who have made an asylum claim on the basis above is not separately available. 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 who have declined to leave voluntarily.
Most illegal immigrants are removed from the UK under administrative or illegal entry
powers and not deported.</p><p>Information on all returns is published as part of
Home Office’s quarterly Immigration Statistics broken down by nationality, and can
be found at tab rt_01:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#returns"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#returns</a></p>
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