Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people that had applied for asylum in the UK were detained in each category for detention in 2018.
The UK has a proud history to providing refuge to those who need our protection. Information on the number of asylum claims, subsequent grants of asylum and humanitarian protection, irrespective of whether the individual was detained, is available in table as_01 of the latest release of the ‘Immi-gration Statistics, Year Ending September 2018’. This is available on the Home Office website at; https:// https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018-data-tables
Information on people entering detention in 2018 is available in table dt_01 of the detention tables in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics, Year Ending September 2018’, available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/681703/detention-september-2018-tables.ods
The table shows the figures broken down by those who have claimed asylum at some point.