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Written question asked by Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party) on Monday, 11 February 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 13 February 2019. It was answered by Caroline Nokes (Conservative) on Tuesday, 19 February 2019 on behalf of the Home Office.


Migrants: Detainees

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration detainees currently in detention have been detained for more than 28 days.

Answer

Information on the number of people in detention, at the end of each quarter, by length of detention is available in table dt_11_q of the detention tables in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending September 2018’, available from Gov.uk:


https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/758249/detention-sep-2018-tables.ods


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
219500
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Detainees Migrants
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk