Where an enforced removal is necessary these are undertaken with extreme care treating those to be removed with courtesy and dignity".
Concerns were also raised over training and supervision of those involved in the enforced removal of failed asylum claimants.
Increases since 2005 in detected deportations come from improved data collection on "other confirmed voluntary departures" of people due for enforced removal.
I remember the citizens of Moss Side placed in the same miserable bind before their enforced removal to Skelmersdale in the 1970s (later bitterly regretted).
The UK Border Agency paid more than £28 million for removal flights in the financial year 2010-2011 and pays an estimated £11,000* for each enforced removal of a rejected asylum applicant.
He claimed that 60 voluntary removals connected to the pilot had "saved" £830,000 on the basis that an enforced removal cost £15,000 compared with £1,000 for a voluntary return.
The US has refused to describe the enforced removal and detention of President Morsi as a coup, despite the killing and wounding of thousands of civilian protesters by Egyptian security forces.
"We recognise that some progress has been made, but any failure to meet standards in the training and supervision of staff involved in cases of enforced removal is extremely worrying.
"The government will continue to enforce the immigration rules and promote voluntary departure schemes to those who have no right to be in the UK – backed up with arrest, detention and enforced removal where individuals refuse to comply with the immigration rules or present a danger to the UK public," said Harper.
But a spokesman said that, given that an enforced removal costs on average £15,000, "if one individual were to take up the voluntary return scheme, that would cover the cost of the pilot compared to the cost of an enforced return".
