Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU nationals have been detained under Immigration Act powers in each of the last five years.

The number of people entering detention by nationality is published in tables dt_04 and dt_04_q in ‘Immigration Statistics, January to March 2017’, available from the Home Office website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615173/detention-jan-mar-2017-tables.ods