Children In and Out of Detention: Q1 2013. In the first quarter of 2013, 37 children entered detention, a decrease of 16 on the first quarter of 2012, this fall coinciding with the closure of Tinsley House from 18 January to 20 March 2013 to new entrants due to an infectious illness. Adults In and Out of detention: Q1 2013. As of the end of March 2013, 2,853 people were in detention, 6% fewer than the number recorded at the end of March 2012.
Of the 38 children leaving detention in the first quarter of 2013, 24 were removed from the UK and the remaining 14 (37%) were granted temporary admission or release. Of those leaving detention, 34 had been detained for less than three days, three for between four and seven days and one had been detained, in Campsfield House, for between two and three months. The percentage of children removed from the UK on leaving detention has risen from 41% in 2010 to 48% in 2012 and 63% in the first quarter of 2013.
Adults In and Out of detention: Q1 2013
As of the end of March 2013, 2,853 people were in detention, 6% fewer than the number recorded at the end of March 2012.
Length of detention: Of the 7,093 leaving detention during the first quarter of 2013, 4,420 (62%) had been in detention for less than 29 days, 1,209 (17%) for between 29 days and two months and 912 (13%) for between two and four months. Of the 552 (8%) remaining, 56 had been in detention for between one and two years and 18 for two years or longer.
Of the 2,534 detained for seven days or less, 1,743 (69%) were removed and 735 (29%) were granted temporary admission or release. Of the 74 detained for 12 months or more, 24 (32%) were removed, 17 (23%) were granted temporary admission or release, 30 (41%) were bailed and 3 (4%) left for other reasons.
In the year ending March 2013, 28,735 people entered detention, an increase of 4% compared with the previous year (27,596). Over the same period there was an increase of 6% in those leaving detention (from 27,163 to 28,761). Of those leaving detention, 60% were removed from the UK.
Figures presented here do not include those held in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short-term holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours) and those recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their dependants.
Top Ten Nationalities entering detention Q1/2013
Pakistan 1,322
India 949
Bangladesh 496
Nigeria 482
Afghanistan 349
Albania 262
Iran 227
Vietnam 205
Sri Lanka 199
Ghana 144
Source Verbatim: Immigration Statistics Q1 2013
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