Migrant removals from UK - analysis

People are regularly removed from the UK. The rounder scheme is simply a novel and some would say controversial way of going about it, specifically targeted at asylum seekers entering the UK illegally. But the number of removals has fallen dramatically since 2010. It’s since picked up a little bit here. Now most removals here are voluntary, but enforced removals here in red, well, they’ve also been falling too over the years. It’s gone up again, that recent uptick. But overall there’s been a 54% decrease in enforced removals between 2010 and 2023. Down from 14,000 nearly over there to only 6400 today. And when it comes to return of asylum seekers specifically, again, where there has been this recent uptick, but overall the numbers are down. These are low numbers historically, but the UK still removes more than most countries. In fact, we have the third highest number of enforced deportations in Europe in 2023, just behind France here, significantly behind Germany. It is hard to compare like with like because the number of removals depends on how many people have been told to leave in the first place. In some countries, including UK, don’t publish that data. So there’s a bit of dispute there, or at least a bit of a Gray area. But we do have some clear cut figures for the Rwanda scheme and the dent it would or wouldn’t put in the number of asylum applications processed in the UK. In 2023, there were 67,300 and 337 applications for assignment. That big number up there now nearly 30 thousand of those were people arriving in small boats, people arriving illegally as they’re under scheme would have it. So how many kid around to take each year? Well, as it stands, it’s this very small number over here, 200, not much of A dent at all. Now that 200 could increase with capacity of the time and the government. Says the scheme will have a deterrent effect, lowering the number of people making crossings across the Channel in the 1st place. But it is an expensive bet to make the bill we’re due to pay around for the next five years. Taking 1000 asylum seekers as it stand, would be £661 million, or more than £600,000 per person removed.