Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants were in immigration detention at the end of 2021.

The Home Office publishes statistics on people in detention on the last day of each quarter in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on people in detention broken down by asylum and non-asylum related detainees are published in table Det_01 of the ‘Detention summary tables’

The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on detention.

Asylum-related detainees relate to detainees who have claimed asylum at some point. This includes failed asylum seekers as well as those with open claims.

Figures on people in detention at the end of December 2021 will be published on 24 February 2022.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.