Asylum: Detainees

(asked on 2nd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants were in immigration removal centres at the end of 2020.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Shadow Home Secretary
This question was answered on 8th March 2021

The Home Office does not centrally record the asylum status of individuals detained within the immigration estate. In order to determine this figure individual case records would need to be reviewed, which could only be completed at disproportionate cost.

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