Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in immigration detention have been (a) released and (b) granted bail without submitting a bail application as a result of reviews during the covid-19 outbreak.

All individuals in detention from 23 March were reviewed to see if they were at a heightened risk from COVID-19, following guidance setting out the action that case workers should take in response to COVID-19. This reflected Public Health England guidance issued on 16 March 2020.? Detained cases have continued to be reviewed in light of updated guidance, and in accordance with detention guidance and known country situations.

The Government published statistics relating to COVID-19 and the immigration system on gov.uk, on 28 May and the latest Immigration Statistics publication includes the numbers of individuals detained under immigration powers in prisons.