Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants were detained by the UK (a) in 2022 and (b) as of 31 December 2022, (i) in total and (ii) broken down by grounds for detention.

The Home Office publishes data on people in detention on the last day of each quarter in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’, as well as data on people entering and leaving detention during each quarter. The latest data relate to the end of September 2022.

Data on asylum-related detentions are published in table Det_01 of the ‘Detention summary tables’ and are broken down by the year of people entering and leaving and by the number of people in detention at the end of the period.

The publishes statistics do not include information on grounds for detention.

Data on how long people were detained for when leaving detention are published in table Det_D03 of the ‘Detention detailed tables’ and are broken down by year and length of detention group. The published data are not broken down by asylum/non-asylum.

Figures on detention at the end of December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023.