Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Government has paid in compensation and settlement to persons wrongfully held in immigration detention in each of the past five years.
Compensation costs for wrongful detention are published and can be found via the following links
FY 2018-19 - page 105
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/807126/6.5571_HO_Annual_Report_201920_WEB.PDF
FY 2017-18 – page 97
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/727179/6_4360_HO_Annual_report_WEB.PDF
For FY 2016 and earlier financial periods
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-03-06/131262/