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Written question asked by Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party) on Thursday, 5 July 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 9 July 2018. It was answered by Caroline Nokes (Conservative) on Wednesday, 11 July 2018 on behalf of the Home Office.


Migrants: Detainees

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people being held in immigration detention centres have been in those centres for over (a) one year, (b) two years and (c) three or more years.

Answer

The Home Office publish data on the number of people in detention as at the end of each quarter, by length of detention. The data is available in table dt_11_q of the detention tables.

The latest available data are as at 31 March 2018 and are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2018’ at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/709326/detention-mar-2018-tables.ods


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
161204
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Detainees Migrants
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk