The Home Office does not deport children.<\/p>
Deportation is a specific form of removal which is used when a Foreign National Offender (FNO) has received a custodial sentence of at least 12 months, unless an exception applies, in line with the UK Border Act 2007 and the Immigration Act 1971.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4311", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Williams of Trafford"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2022-07-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2022-07-29T11:48:54.303Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Home Office"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Home Office"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2022-07-14", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Deportation: Children"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government how many British citizens who were children were deported in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, and (3) 2021.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3687", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Rosser"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Rosser"} ], "uin" : "HL1779"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1092105", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1092105/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Home Office publish data on the number of children leaving detention by year and quarter. This shows 63 children leaving detention of which 22 were removed from the UK between January and December 2018 and confirms no children were British. (Found in the Detention Data Tables, dt_09 and dt_08 respectively).<\/p>
The latest available data are published in \u2018Immigration Statistics, year ending December 2018\u2019 at: Between August 2017 and July 2018, 478 families were returned from pre-departure accommodation. (Found in the Immigration Enforcement Data, PDA_01).<\/p>
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018-data-tables<\/a><\/p>