Immigrants: Detainees

(asked on 4th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children in the UK had one or both parents placed in immigration detention in each calendar year since 2010; what were the ages of those children; for what period were they separated from one or both parents; and if such records are not kept, why not.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
This question was answered on 13th September 2018

Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.

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