Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people detained in immigration removal centres are women.

The Home Office publishes statistics on people in detention on the last day of each quarter in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on people in detention under immigration powers, are published in Table Det_03a of the ‘Detention summary tables’

The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on detention.

Further breakdowns by gender can be found in the Immigration detention detailed datasets

Figures on people in detention at the end of December 2020 will be published on 25 February 2021.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.