Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average duration of detention for detained migrants was in 2017.
Figures for Q4 2017 will be released on 22 February 2018. Information on the length of detention of people leaving and in detention is available in tables dt_06_q and dt_11_q of the detention tables in the latest releases of ‘Immigration Statistics, July to September 2017’, available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662536/detention-jul-sep-2017-tables.ods.