Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many persons were held in immigration detention for (1) removal from the UK, and (2) assessment purposes, for the most recent date that data are available; and whether the Manston immigration centre is still overcrowded and therefore potentially a risk to health.

The Home Office publishes data on people held in detention in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release.

Data on those in detention relate to those in detention on the last day of the quarter. Reasons for detention are not published in the data.