Asylum: Detainees

(asked on 20th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants have been detained in each year since 2013, and how many of those applicants were detained in (a) a short-term facility, and (b) an Immigration Removal Centre.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 23rd February 2017

The information requested is not recorded on Home Office systems. We do report on the number of decisions made an asylum claims, and, separately, on the number of persons detained for immigration purposes.

However, we do not have a combined set of data which would allow the question to be answered, and to cross-match these data sets over the period requested (since January 2014) would require a manual data matching exercise.

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