Last quarter of 2020 saw 322 people removed from the UK by charter flight, 10 times more than in 2019
The cost of removing people from the UK by charter flight during the last three months of 2020 cost £13,354 per person – more than one hundred times higher than the average cost of a ticket on a scheduled flight, and a 11.5% increase on last year.
A freedom of information response obtained by the organisation No-Deportations stated that between October and December 2020 the Home Office spent £4.3m deporting 322 people on 23 charter flights – which amounts to £13,354 per deportee.
