Mr Frank Field – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Frank Field on 2014-02-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in prison in the latest period for which data is available served a time longer than their full sentence.

James Brokenshire

[holding answer 26 February 2014]

For the for week commencing 24 February 2014, there were 821 immigration detainees in prisons.

Please note that the data includes a small number of individuals who have never served a custodial sentence. These individuals present specific risk factors that indicate they pose a serious risk of harm to the public or to the good order of an Immigration Removal Centre, including the safety of staff and other detainees, which cannot be managed within the regime applied in IRCs.

To extract this small number of cases who have not served a custodial sentence would incur a disproportionate cost as this would involve looking at individual records.