Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current (a) capacity and (b) occupancy rate is of each immigration removal centre.

The Home Office publishes statistics on people in detention on the last day of each quarter in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release(opens in a new tab)’. Data on people in detention under immigration powers, are published in Table Det_03a of the ‘Detention summary tables(opens in a new tab)’

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

Figures on people in detention at the end of December 2020 will be published on 25 February 2021.

The table below sets out the operational capacity for each immigration removal centre (if all rooms and beds are in use) and the current occupancy rate as of 28 January 2021.

In order to meet operational needs and demands, we will continue to operate the immigration removal estate, in a flexible manner.