Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who were detained in immigration detention centres have been released into the community in each of the last five years.

Information on people leaving detention, by reason, is available in table dt_06 of the detention tables in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics, October to December 2017’, available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/681703/detention-oct-dec-2017-tables.ods