Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of detention was for detained migrants in 2019.

The Home Office publishes data on length of detention in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. The median length of detention of people in the immigration detention estate as at 31 September 2019 was between 15 and 28 days, and of people leaving the detention estate in year ending September 2019 was between 8 and 14 days. Banded length of detention figures are published in Det_D02 and Det_D03 of the Detailed Detention datasets .

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2019. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the 'summary tables'. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on detention.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’. Q4 2019 figures will be released on 27^th February 2020.