Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Report on an unannounced inspection of Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre published by HMIP on 7 August 2023, how many detainees are currently held at Tinsley House; and when she plans to increase the number of staff at Tinsley House to the level at which the centre can operate at full capacity.
The Home Office publishes data on people in immigration detention in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release
The number of people in detention on the last day of each quarter are published in table Det_D02 of the Detention detailed datasets at:
The data can be broken down by nationality of detained person, and place of detention.
The latest data relate to the number of people in detention at the end of June 2023.
Tinsley House immigration removal centre (IRC) is operating at full capacity.