Written Question·Home Office·UIN 56621

Immigration Removal Centres: Costs

Tabled: 2 June 2025
Answered: 10 June 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of each immigration detention bed.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
The Home Office currently operates seven Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) throughout the UK, (six in England and one in Scotland) and three residential Short-Term Holding Facilities (STHFs) (one in Northern Ireland and two in England). Additionally, the...
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