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Baroness Cox receives answers to her written questions on UK immigration detention centres

14 June 2018

Baroness Cox (crossbench) asked the UK Government about the number of people that have been removed from the UK since May 2017. 

Question: 

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of people held in UK immigration detention centres for over one year have been subsequently removed from the UK since May 2017.

Citation: HL8352

Answer: Baroness Williams of Trafford (The Minister of State, Home Department) 

Information on the number of people leaving detention, by length of detention and reason is available in table dt_06_q (see below) 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

To see the full table, click here.

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