Lord Hylton: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times in each of the last two years pilots have refused to fly people due to be deported or repatriated on account of their physical or mental condition. [HL2011]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): Information is recorded on the number of occasions where the carrier deemed a person to be medically unfit to fly, of which there were 36 instances in the past two calendar years.

These figures are not provided under National Statistics protocols and have been derived from management information which is provisional and subject to change.