Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his oral contribution on 7 January 2019, Official Report, column 85, how many migrants arriving on the Kent coast in (a) the first nine months and (b) the final three months of 2018 have been detained in immigration removal centres.

During 2018 there has been a rise in the number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats to reach the UK to claim asylum.

Information on people entering detention by age, sex and place of initial detention (as at year ending September 2018) is available in table dt_01_q of the detention tables, which can be found in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics’, available from the Home Office website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#detention