Richard Fuller
Conservative, Bedford
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women detained for immigration purposes were subsequently (a) deported and (b) released in the last six months of 2011; and how many such women had been detained for more than (i) three months, (ii) six months, (iii) one year and (iv) two years.
Damian Green
The Minister for Immigration
The following table shows the latest published figures on the number of women leaving detention, held solely under Immigration Act powers in immigration removal centres or short term holding facilities in Q3 2011, by reason and length of detention.
| Females leaving detention by reason and length of detention, Q3 2011 | ||||||
| Total female detainees | Removed from the UK | Granted leave to enter/remain | Granted temporary admission/release | Bailed | Other | |
| Total females | 1,123 | 714 | 8 | 322 | 67 | 12 |
| Length of detention | ||||||
| Less than 3 months | 1,055 | 673 | 8 | 307 | 56 | 11 |
| 3 months to less than 6 months | 47 | 33 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 0 |
| 6 months to less than 12 months | 18 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 12 months to less than 24 months | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 months or more | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Notes: 1. Data are provisional. 2. All people held are detained in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers and exclude those in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short-term holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours), and those recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their dependants. 3. Figures include dependants. 4. Relates to most recent period of sole detention. The period of detention starts when a person first enters the UK Border Agency estate. If the person is then moved from a removal centre to a police cell or Prison Service establishment, this period of stay will be included if the detention is solely under Immigration Act powers. | ||||||
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of women leaving detention, solely under Immigration Act powers. Q4 2011 detention figures will be published on
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/science-research/research-statistics/migration/migration-statistics1/
Detention is a necessary part of the process to remove some individuals with no right to be in the UK. We always seek to remove those with no right to be here as quickly as possible but if detainees give false or incomplete information or submits spurious last minute appeals, then in such cases, it can delay their return and extend their detention.
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