Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Rule 35(1) reports made by GPs working in Immigration Removal Centres setting out their concerns that continued detention of a person was likely to be injurious to their health were received by his Department from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023; how many such persons were released from detention as a result of such a report; and in how many cases was detention continued because his Department believed that the vulnerabilities identified by the medical practitioner were outweighed by immigration control factors.

We regularly publish data on Rule 35(1) report from GPs in Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).

For the information from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023. Information is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-q4-2023.

DT_03: Reports made by a medical practitioner to the Home Office under Rule 35 on individuals in immigration detention by level (1, 2 and 3).

To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office refers to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication.

We do not routinely publish information about whether continued detention could be harmful to a person’s health along with details on number of people released or where detention was continued for immigration control reasons.