Immigrants: Detainees

(asked on 20th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the daily cost to the public purse is of detaining an individual in (a) a short-term holding facility and (b) an immigration removal centre.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 27th February 2017

The Home Office publishes, once a quarter, the average cost per day of immigration detention as part of Immigration Statistics. This can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2016

The Home Office is not able to calculate the average daily cost of short term holding facilities and immigration removal centres without incurring disproportionate cost.

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