Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people being held in immigration detention centres have been in those centres for over (a) one year, (b) two years and (c) three or more years.
The Home Office publish data on the number of people in detention as at the end of each quarter, by length of detention. The data is available in table dt_11_q of the detention tables.
The latest available data are as at 31 March 2018 and are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2018’ at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/709326/detention-mar-2018-tables.ods