Written question asked by Siobhain McDonagh (Labour) on Wednesday, 15 June 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 20 June 2011. It was answered by Damian Green (Conservative) on Tuesday, 21 June 2011 on behalf of the Home Office.

Deportation: Tamils

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information she holds on the number of Commonwealth citizens with Tamil ethnicity who were deported to Sri Lanka by the UK Border Agency and have subsequently disappeared in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

Answer: [holding answer 20 June 2011]: There is no evidence that those previously removed to Sri Lanka have been mistreated by the Sri Lankan authorities.The UK Border Agency does not routinely monitor the treatment of individual failed asylum seekers who return to their home country. We believe that the best way to avoid ill-treatment is to make sure that we do not return those who are at risk. We do this by ensuring that trained caseworkers make the right decisions based on the circumstances of each individual case, and by providing a right of appeal to the independent courts.

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