Clayton: Textbook on Immigration & Asylum Law 3e 
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Chapter 17
17.1.2 Expansion in the power to remove
As mentioned in the update to 7.6.5 Refusal of leave to enter, new mandatory grounds for refusal of leave to enter were added to the immigration rules from 1st April 2008 (HC321) which will mean that people removed from the UK also face a re-entry ban for a fixed period (see update on 7.6.5), giving it an effect much more similar to deportation. If current proposals in the draft Immigration and Citizenship Bill are implemented, deportation and removal will be merged into 'expulsion'.
17.1.3 Policy on removals
On 19th November 2008 the Government’s quarterly Control of Immigration Statistics showed:
In the three months to September this year 17, 525 people were removed - a nine per cent increase on the same period the previous year and the highest number of removals in any third quarter for six years.
The most recent immigration statistics are for the first quarter of 2009. 15,840 persons were removed or departed voluntarily from the UK, 6% fewer than in Q1 2008 (16,760). There was a fall of 7% to 2,805 for those leaving who had claimed asylum (including dependants) and a fall of 5% to 13,035 for non-asylum cases (Control of Immigration Statistics, Quarterly Summary, UK).
Of those who left in the first quarter of 2009, 7,695 persons were initially refused entry at port (7% fewer than in the first quarter of 2008), 4,575 were enforced removals and notified voluntary departures (15 % fewer than the same quarter in 2008), 1,220 persons, of whom 770 were asylum seekers, left under Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes (26% higher than in Q1 2008), and 2,345 were other voluntary departures (11% than in Q1 2008), of whom 340 were asylum seekers.
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