Migrants: Detainees
(asked on 9th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many persons are currently held in immigration detention.
This question was answered on 23rd January 2023
The Home Office publishes numbers of detainees in the Immigration Statistics quarterly release on gov.uk. The most recent published total of people in detention was for the end of September 2022, when there were 2,077 detainees held.
For more information about how this data should be interpreted, please see the ‘About the statistics’ section of the release.