Immigrants: Detainees
(asked on 4th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people currently held in immigration detention are claiming asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.
The basis of a person’s asylum claim is recorded on their individual Home Office file, but not in a way that can be easily aggregated. Therefore, we cannot provide figures on how many people are currently held in immigra-tion detention, claiming asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.
As such, this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost because it would require a manual search through individual records.
Information on people entering detention in 2018 can be found in tab dt_01_q of the ‘Detention data tables immigration statistics year ending September 2018’:
Information on the number of asylum claims, subsequent grants of asylum and humanitarian protection, irrespective of whether the individual was de-tained, (as at year ending September 2018) can be found in tab as_02¬_q at Volume 2 of the quarterly Immigration statistics release:
Information on people entering detention in 2018 can be found in tab dt_01_q of the ‘Detention data tables immigration statistics year ending September 2018’: