Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of immigration detention was in each of the last three years.

Detention costs over the past three financial years have been published in the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts, for 2015-16 and 2014-15. Copies of these publications can be found on the .gov.uk website:

For 2015-16: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539638/HO_AR_16_gov.pdf

For 2014-15: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441282/HO-AR15_web.pdf