Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women detained for immigration purposes disclosed experience of domestic abuse in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.

The Home Office is unable to report on how many women detained for immigration purposes disclosed experience of domestic abuse, as such detail is recorded on individual Home Office files and to obtain this information would require a manual trawl and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.