Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the immigration detention estate cost the public purse in each of the last five years.

Detention costs are published in the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts and they can be found via the following links

FY2016/17 - page 115:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/627853/ho_annual_report_and_accounts_2016_2017.pdf

FY2015/16 - page 132:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539638/HO_AR_16_gov.pdf

FY2014/15 – page 124

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441282/HO-AR15_web.pdf

FY2013/14 – page 110

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321446/ARA_web_enabled_18_June.pdf