Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monthly cost is of running each immigration removal centre.

The Costs of individual Removal centres are commercially sensitive. The department publishes data setting out the average daily cost of all removal centres, which are calculated as below. For the most recent period published, the total average monthly cost of all centres was £9.16m (monthly cost per bed multiplied by the number of bed spaces)

The costs are derived at by dividing the Total Resource Costs of running Detention Centres (Contracts, staff, Rent, Rates, Utilities and Depreciation) by the average number of bed spaces (currently 3185).

The average cost to detain an individual in immigration detention is provided on a per day basis. The current daily cost per detainee is £94.56, which corresponds to an annual cost of £34,514 (£94.56 multiplied by 365 days) and monthly £2876 (£34,514 divided by 12 months). Data can be found at the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-february-2020