Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many persons were held in immigration detention centres at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic; and how many persons are being held in such centres at present.

The Home Office publishes statistics on people entering, leaving and in detention in the 'Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release', which can be found on Gov.uk. The number of people in detention at the end of each quarter can be broken down by place of detention in table Det_D02 of the 'Detention detailed tables' - which is attached. The latest data relate to those in detention at the end of December 2021.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.