Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the value for money of legal costs incurred by her Department as a result of people who are wrongly held in immigration detention.

Decisions to detain people are not taken lightly and subject to regular reviews to ensure it remains appropriate. We will robustly defend decisions subject to legal challenge, when appropriate to do so and each decision is reviewed on an individual basis, with a decision to defend or concede based on the merits of the individual case.