Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Eritrea are currently held in immigration detention centres in the UK.

As at 31 December 2015, there were 20 Eritrean nationals in detention in the UK. The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of persons removed or departed voluntarily from the UK within Immigration Statistics. Information on those in detention by nationality is available in the latest release, Immigration Statistics: October to December 2015, table dt_13_q from GOV.UK on the statistics web pages at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release