Immigrants: Detainees
(asked on 10th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people are detained in each Immigration Detention Centre.
The table below provides the latest published information for people detained in the detention estate by centre as at 30 September 2015, the latest date for which published figures are available.
People in detention as at 30 September 2015, by place of detention. | |
Total | 3,531 |
Brook House IRC | 414 |
Campsfield House IRC | 277 |
Colnbrook IRC | 342 |
Dover IRC | 249 |
Dungavel IRC | 202 |
Harmondsworth IRC | 601 |
Morton Hall IRC | 386 |
The Verne IRC | 509 |
Tinsley House IRC | 112 |
Yarl's Wood IRC | 386 |
Colnbrook STHF | 21 |
Larne House STHF | 6 |
Pennine House STHF | 26 |
Cedars PDA | 0 |
IRC = Immigration Removal Centre, STHF = Short Term Holding Facility, PDA = Pre Departure Accommodation. | |
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within the Immigration Statistics release. Data relating to people in detention are available in tables dt_01 to dt_13_q in Immigration Statistics: July – September 2015 on the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.
Published figures on people detained in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers include those held in short term holding facilities, pre departure accommodation and immigration removal centres. Figures exclude those held in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short term holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours), and those recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their dependants.