Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2019 to Question 212416 on Immigrants: Detainees, whether total resource costs of running the detention centres includes (a) health services within detention and (b) escorting services to and from detention.

The costs include all welfare provision but exclude Healthcare provision costs in England. Health Care services are provided by NHS England under a different agreement. The costs do not include the costs of the escorting contract which covers escorting to and from removal centres, the cost of escorting for removals and other supporting activities.