Written Question·Home Office·UIN 24211

Immigration Removal Centres

Tabled: 30 April 2024

Answered: 7 May 2024

Named Day

Question

Dame Diana Johnson

Labour — Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 April 2024 to Question 23168 on Asylum: Rwanda, what detention capacity the Home Office had on 24 April (a) 2023, (b) 2024, (c) 2021 and (d) 2020.

Answer

On 24 April 2020 the capacity of the immigration detention estate was c2300 immigration removal centre (IRC) beds (if all rooms and beds were in use). As a result of operational changes including the closure of Morton Hall IRC, detention capacity reduced ...

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