Immigrants: Detainees
(asked on 5th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been held in UK immigration detention centres for over two months in 2018.
Information on the number of people in detention, by length of detention is available in table dt_12_q of the detention tables in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2018’, available from the GOV.uk website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/709326/detention-mar-2018-tables.ods Table dt_12_q has also been attached for ease of reference.
People in detention by length of detention |
| |
As at end of quarter | Length of detention | Total detainees |
2018 Q1 | *Total | 2,758 |
2018 Q1 | A: 3 days or less | 182 |
2018 Q1 | B: 4 to 7 days | 164 |
2018 Q1 | C: 8 to 14 days | 335 |
2018 Q1 | D: 15 to 28 days | 440 |
2018 Q1 | E: 29 days to less than 2 months | 570 |
2018 Q1 | F: 2 months to less than 3 months | 289 |
2018 Q1 | G: 3 months to less than 4 months | 167 |
2018 Q1 | H: 4 months to less than 6 months | 254 |
2018 Q1 | I: 6 months to less than 12 months | 286 |
2018 Q1 | J: 12 months to less than 18 months | 55 |
2018 Q1 | K: 18 months to less than 24 months | 11 |
2018 Q1 | L: 24 months to less than 36 months | 4 |
2018 Q1 | M: 36 months to less than 48 months | 1 |
2018 Q1 | N: 48 months or more | 0 |