Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the outcomes of detention by length of detention for women asylum seekers detained by her Department were in each of the last three years.

Published figures on people detained in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers include those held in short term holding facilities, pre departure accommodation and immigration removal centres. Figures exclude those held in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short term holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours), and those recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their dependants. The following table shows the number of female detainees who had claimed asylum at some point, by reason for leaving detention and by length of detention for each of the last three years.

The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within Immigration Statistics: January – March 2014, from the GOV.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.