David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-04-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost is of keeping a foreign national offender classified by her Department as individual non-compliant in detention for one day.

James Brokenshire

The estimated average direct daily cost of holding a person in our immigration
detention facilities is £100. It should be noted that this is an average and it
will vary marginally depending upon the mix of facilities in use at a given
point.