Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether, since 7 March, any individuals entering the UK to seek asylum by irregular routes have been held in detention; and if so, how many.

The Home Office does not publish data on people entering detention broken down by arrival route.

The Home Office publishes statistics on people entering detention in the Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release on gov.uk. The number of people entering detention can be broken down by asylum and non-asylum-related cases in table Det_01 of the detention summary tables.

The latest data relates to the end of March 2023. Data up to the end of June 2023 will be published on 24 August 2023.