Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who arrived in the UK since 20 July 2023 are held in detention centres.

The Home Office publishes data on detention in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum seekers in detention is published in table Det_01 of the ‘detention summary tables’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to September 2022. More recent data on asylum seekers in detention is not available due to the on-going transition to a new case working system. We will seek to include this information in future editions of the publication when available.