Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many families detained at Cedars Pre-Departure Accommodation were (a) removed from the country and (b) released into the community in each of the last three years.

The number of families accommodated at Cedars for each of the last three years, along with the numbers subsequently removed or released is as follows:

The definition of a family in Cedars is one adult with at least one child under the age of 18. These statistics have been taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated.