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Home Office

Answer

Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total cost of immigration detention in the past 12 months; how much of this is represented by (a) designated prisons, (b) other prisons, (c) police stations, (d) Immigration Service detention facilities and (e) airport holding facilities; and what proportion of the cost is represented by ex-convicts awaiting deportation, beyond the date on which they would otherwise have been released, under section 3(5) or (6). [93515] Mr. Mike O'Brien: The total cost of immigration detention in the last financial year is estimated to be £40,228,000, including overheads, of which £15,135,000 is for designated prisons, (a) costs for Immigration Act 1971 detainees in other prisons, (b) can only be provided at disproportionate cost; £1,360,000 is for detention in police stations, (c) £18,151,000 for Immigration Service detention facilities at Harmondsworth, Tinsley House and Campsfield House, (d) £5,582,000 for other detention facilities at ports and airports, and (e) the costs of detaining ex-convicts awaiting deportation, beyond the date on which they would normally be released cannot be obtained except at disproportionate cost.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

93515; 336 c273W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Detainees Deportation Costs Airports Migrants Prisons Detention centres Police stations

Contains statistics

Yes