Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women who were held in migrant detention while pregnant miscarried or experienced a still birth each year (a) before the implementation of the 72-hour detention limit in 2016 and (b) after the implementation of that limit.

The Home Office does not hold the information requested.

Data on the total number of pregnant women detained in the immigration detention estate each quarter is published in table PWD_01 of the ‘Immigration Enforcement data: Q4 2022’. This data is only available from July 2016 and goes up to the end of September 2022. For data prior to 2010, see the archived Detention tables.