Cash payments and reintegration of removals and deportations to Nigeria

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Dear Home Office,

I would be grateful if you could answer the follow questions in regards to charter flights - Operation Majestic - departing from the UK to Nigeria.

1. Are individuals forcibly removed or deported given money by the UK Home Office? This could refer to either before, during, or upon arrival in the receiving country of enforced removal or deportation. If the amount differs for an enforced removal and a deportation please include this too.

2. It is noted in an Inspection Report of charter flights to Nigeria and Ghana (2013) that the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) offer help with accommodation and finance for up to three weeks after arrival. Is this still a service offered by the IOM in 2016?

3. In the same report of 2013, it is noted that the CIO on board the charter flight arranged a " 'destitute payment' " for an individual who was concerned that the IOM would provide them with enough money to meet their needs. Please provide the amount of money spent per year on "destitute payments" aboard charter flights to Nigeria and Ghana, from 2010 to 2015. If it is possible to have a breakdown of the amount of money spent on "destitute payments" per each charter flight, please provide this.

4. It is noted in a Inspection Report of a charter flight to Nigeria and Ghana of 2015, that "A member of staff from the British High Commission came onto the aircraft at Lagos and arranged support from local agencies for any who were referred because they had no means of support. She ensured that all detainees had somewhere to stay in the short term and enough money for travel to their home area." Please provide a list of said "local agencies" in Nigeria and Ghana that offer support that the Home Office are aware of and make referrals to.
Please provide evidence that it is ensured that deportees have somewhere to stay in the short term and enough money for travel to their home area - for example, through evidencing the amount of the money the British High Commission has spent on giving deportees money for travel to their home area, or evidences of referrals to agencies housing deportees/payments made to hotels, hostels etc. in Nigeria or Ghana that have housed deportees in the short term.a

Yours faithfully,

Lotte Smith

FOI Requests, Home Office

Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.

This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 41371). We will aim to send you a full response by 7/11/2016 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.

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Thank you,

FOI Requests
R Patel
Home Office

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Dear Ms Smith

 

Please see the attached in regard to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Regards

 

Immigration Enforcement

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Dear Home Office,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's handling of my FOI request 'Cash payments and reintegration of removals and deportations to Nigeria'.

The deadline for providing me a response iaw the FOI Act has now passed.

Please provide me with a reply soonest.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

Lotte Smith

FOI Requests, Home Office

Dear Lotte Smith,

Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request for an Internal Review.

This has been assigned to a caseworker (retaining case ref 41371). We will aim to send you a full response by 10/01/17 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you,

A Callaghan
FOI Requests
Home Office

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N McKenzie

HOME OFFICE

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Dear Home Office,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's handling of my FOI request 'Cash payments and reintegration of removals and deportations to Nigeria'.

The deadline for providing me with a response to the FOI Act has now passed. By law, you should have responded by now. Once again I ask that you please provide an answer to my FOI request.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

Lotte Smith

Immigration Enforcement FOI PQ, Home Office

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Dear Ms Smith

 

Please see the attached in regard to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Regards

 

Immigration Enforcement

Freedom of Information & Parliamentary Questions Team

 

 

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Dear Immigration Enforcement FOI PQ,

Please respond to my request in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Lotte Smith

Dear Immigration Enforcement FOI PQ,

In addition, I would like to request all internal correspondence and communications between Home Office employees regarding my initial FOI request called Cash payments and reintegration of removals and deportations to Nigeria.

Yours sincerely,

Lotte Smith

FOI Requests, Home Office

Ms Smith

Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.

This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 42605). We will aim to send you a full response by 20/02/2017 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you,

J Douglas
FOI Requests
Home Office

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Dear Ms Smith

 

Please see the attached in regard to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Regards

 

Immigration Enforcement

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Dear Immigration Enforcement FOI PQ,

Just a reminder that, in accordance with the law, you are required to respond by the deadline you set yourselves of tomorrow.

I look forward to hearing your response.

Yours sincerely,

Lotte Smith

Immigration Enforcement FOI PQ, Home Office

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Dear Ms Smith

 

Please see the attached in regard to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Regards

 

Immigration Enforcement

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Dear Ms Smith

 

Please see the attached response to your Freedom of Information request.

 

We apologise for the delayed response.

 

Regards

 

Immigration Enforcement Secretariat

 

 

 

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Dear Ms Smith,

 

Please see the attached response to your Freedom of Information request.

 

We apologise for the delay.

 

Regards

 

Immigration Enforcement Secretariat

 

 

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