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Immigration: Colnbrook Detention Centre

Volume 705: debated on Wednesday 12 November 2008

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Lord Hylton

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many people are in Colnbrook detention centre; and how many men have been held there for longer than three months after the end of their prison sentence. [HL5889]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office
(Lord West of Spithead)

Colnbrook immigration removals centre has a capacity to hold 348 single male detainees.

There are currently 122 men detained at the centre who have been detained for more than three months after the completion of their custodial prison sentence.