Angela Crawley – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Angela Crawley on 2016-06-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many pregnant women have been deported from the UK in the last five years.

James Brokenshire

The Home Office will not necessarily be aware that a woman is pregnant unless she chooses to make this known to us and a woman may not know herself that she is pregnant when she is detained. It may not always be appropriate for healthcare professionals to disclose information that the patient has asked not to be disclosed.

Subject to these limitations, management information for 21 June 2016 shows that there were no pregnant women detained under Immigration Act powers at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre.

Information on the number of pregnant women deported from the UK in each of the last five years is not held centrally and providing it would incur disproportionate cost.