Written question asked by Barbara Roche (Labour), in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 20 December 1994. It was answered by Nicholas Baker (Conservative) on Tuesday, 20 December 1994 on behalf of the Home Office.

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Home Office

Question

What is the average period of detention of those asylum seekers who are detained; what is the longest time for which an asylum seeker has been detained; pursuant to his answer of 12 December, 251 c483-84W, for how long each of the 103 asylum seekers who have been detained for more than six months and the asylum seekers who have been detained for longer than 12 months have been in detention. - Inc table.

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Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

251 c1201W

Session

1994-95

Subjects

Detainees Deportation Undocumented migrants Migrants Refugees

Contains statistics

Yes