Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the longest period spent in immigration detention by a detainee who left an Immigration Removal Centre between June 2017 and October 2018.

The Home Office publish data on the number of people leaving detention by year and quarter, broken down by length of detention. The latest data is available in tables dt_06 and dt_06_q of the immigration statistics, year ending June 2018: Detention tables.

Figures for July to September 2018 will be released on 29 November 2018 in Immigration statistics, year ending September 2018, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release