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Immigration Removal Centres: Costs

Commons · Question 56621 · Tabled 2 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 10 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of each immigration detention bed.

Answer

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 10 Jun 2025

The Home Office currently operates seven Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) throughout the UK, (six in England and one in Scotland) and three residential Short-Term Holding Facilities (STHFs) (one in Northern Ireland and two in England). Additionally, the...