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Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many detainees at the Yarl’s Wood Detention and Removal Centre have been in detention for (a) between three and six months, (b) between six and nine months, (c) between nine and 12 months, (d) between 12 and 18 months and (e) more than 18 months. (218688)

Information on persons detained at Yarl's Wood Immigration Service Removal Centre for all periods of time requested is not available; this information could be obtained only through the examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.

However, management information currently available shows that of the persons held in detention for at least nine months and detained at Yarl’s Wood as at 10 July 2008, one has been in detention for between nine and 12 months, four have been in detention for between 12 and 18 months and four have been in detention for more than 18 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to which countries those people detained at Yarl's Wood Detention and Removal Centre who have been detained there for more than nine months are due to be returned; and how many do not have current removal directions. (218689)

Those people detained at Yarl’s Wood Detention and Removal Centre for more than nine months as 10 July 2008 are recorded as nationals of Liberia, Nigeria, Jordon, Kenya, Vietnam, India and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In seven of these cases removal directions are not currently set.