To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what compensation payments have been made by (a) her Department and (b) private contractors working for her Department to immigration detainees in (i) response to allegations of unlawful detention, (ii) response to allegations of assault and (iii) total since 2004; and if she will make a statement. (244559)

[holding answer 18 December 2008]: The information requested is not collected centrally and could be obtained through examination of individual records only at disproportionate cost.