Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how his Department calculates the quarterly figures on the average cost per day to hold an individual in immigration detention.

The costs are derived at by dividing the Total Resource Costs of running the Detention Centres (Contracts, Staff, Rent, Rates, Utilities and Depreciation) by the average number of bed spaces (currently 3448).

The average cost to detain an individual in immigration detention is provided on a per day basis. The current daily cost per detainee is £88.29, which corre-sponds to an annual cost of £32,227 (£88.29 multiplied by 365 days). Data can be found at the link below

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-november-2018