Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied child refugees have been held at detention centres for more than 24 hours since July 2023.

The Home Office publishes data on immigration detention in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on people in detention and leaving detention by age group and length of detention are published in tables Det_D02 and Det_D03 of the ‘Immigration Detention detailed datasets’. The latest data covers the period up to the end of June 2023. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. Data up to the end of September 2023 will be released on 23 November 2023.

Data on whether detainees are unaccompanied child refugees is not published. Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, as well as quality and availability of data.