(1) Provisional. (2) Includes offences of employing a person aged 16 and above and employing a person knowingly that they are an adult subject to immigration control. (3) These are data on the principal immigration offence basis. (4) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitation are taken into account when those data are used.
Immigrants: Detainees
Chris Huhne:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of people in each age group held in immigration detention centres have been (a) released and (b) deported in each year since 1997. [308447]
Alan Johnson:
Tables A and B show the number of persons recorded as leaving detention in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers, by age and reason for leaving detention for the year 2005 and the period January to September 2006. These figures are not available prior to or after this period.
However, in August 2009 the Control of Immigration Quarterly Statistical publication was expanded to include management information on the total number of persons leaving detention and the number of children leaving detention. The information is now available for Quarter 1, Quarter 2 and Quarter 3 of 2009. Table C shows these figures, they will continue to be published quarterly in the future; however data for earlier years will remain unavailable.
Table D shows persons removed from the United Kingdom on leaving detention held solely under Immigration Act powers, by age for 2005, January to September 2006, 2007, 2008 and January to September 2009. Data for earlier years are unavailable.
Published statistics on immigration and asylum are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:
Table A: Persons recorded as leaving detention in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers, 2005, by age( 1) and reason for leaving detention( 2,3) (excluding Oakington and Harwich( 4) )
Number of individuals
Children
Total persons( 5)
of whom :
Adults( 1) 18 yrs+
Under 5 yrs
5-11 yrs
12-16 yrs
17 yrs
Total children
Reason for leaving detention
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
Removed from the UK
20,420
70
19,185
70
555
70
355
61
265
67
55
67
1,230
66
Granted leave to enter/remain(6)
130
0
130
0
-
0
-
0
-
0
-
0
-
0
Granted temporary admission/release(7)
7,290
25
6,715
25
225
28
210
36
120
30
25
31
575
31
Bailed(8)
1,370
5
1,320
5
20
2
20
3
10
3
*
1
50
3
Other
5
0
5
0
-
0
-
0
-
0
-
0
-
0
Total persons leaving detention
29,210
27,350
795
585
395
85
1,860
Table B: Persons recorded as leaving detention in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers, January to September 2006, by age( 1) and reason for leaving detention( 2,3) (excluding Oakington and Harwich( 4) )
Number of individuals
Children
Total persons( 5)
of whom :
Adults( 1) 18 yrs+
Under 5 yrs
5-11 yrs
12-16 yrs
17 yrs
Total children
Reason for leaving detention
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
Removed from the UK
14,360
68
13,625
69
315
60
250
59
135
59
35
67
735
60
Granted leave to enter/remain(6)
110
1
110
1
*
0
-
0
-
0
-
0
*
0
18 Jan 2010 : Column 39W
18 Jan 2010 : Column 40W
Granted temporary admission/release(7)
5,470
26
5,000
25
205
39
160
38
85
38
15
31
470
38
Bailed(8)
1,105
5
1,080
5
10
2
10
3
5
3
*
2
25
2
Other
*
0
*
0
-
0
-
0
-
0
-
0
-
0
Total persons leaving detention
21,045
19,810
530
425
230
50
1,235
(1) Recorded age at the end of their period of detention. Figures for children will overstate if any applicants aged 18 or over claim to be younger. (2) Numbers rounded to the nearest five (- = 0, * = 1 or 2) and may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding. Percentages rounded to the nearest per cent. and may therefore not sum to 100. Figures exclude persons recorded as leaving detention from police cells and Prison Service establishments, those recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers at time of removal/release and their children. (3) Some detainees may be recorded more than once if, for example, the person has been detained on more than one separate occasion in the time period shown. (4) Oakington Reception Centre and Harwich were not controlled by the same part of UKBA as the removal/detention centres in the UKBA estate before 2007. Oakington and Harwich data on the database were incomplete so they were excluded prior to 2007. (5) Figures include dependants and those detained in family groups. (6) Short or long term stay in the UK has been granted. (7) Decision on case has not been made. (8) Detainee has applied for, and been granted, bail at a bail hearing.
