A four-year-old asylum seeker picked up in a dawn raid on his Glasgow home is to be removed from the country tomorrow.

A four-year-old asylum seeker picked up in a dawn raid on his Glasgow home is to be removed from the country tomorrow.

Arouna Fatou-Gaye and his mother, Felicite, have been flown out of the country by private jet once, but were sent back to the UK when authorities in the Ivory Coast refused to recognise them as citizens.

The flight cost the taxpayer £70,000, according to a Scottish MP who revealed yesterday that more than £80m has been spent on removal flights since 2005.

Though Ms Fatou-Gaye is not believed to have any documentation, Home Office officials have now determined that she is Senegalese.

Their case sparked outrage from asylum campaigners and politicians, with the fact that Arouna was born in Britain adding to the controversy.

The pair were held in a dawn raid on their Sighthill home earlier this year, and were then detained at the Dungavel Detention Centre in contradiction of a Westminster pledge to end detention of children.

Now at Yarl's Wood facility near London, Ms Fatou-Gaye said she and Arouna were due to be transported tomorrow to Senegal via Brazil.

According to figures obtained by SNP MP Pete Wishart, more than £8m was spent on chartered jets for asylum seekers last year alone, with a total of £81.5m spent on removal flights since 2005. Mr Wishart, the MP for Perth and North Perthshire, said he would raise the issue in the House of Commons during debates on the Borders, Immigration and Citizenship Bill in the coming week.

"Nobody would dispute there is a need for removals, but it is not clear why the Border Agency believes chartering private jets is the best use of taxpayers' money," he said.