Could you please release statistics on the number of individuals
detained in the UK while awaiting deportation or awaiting decisions
on their immigration status. I would like to you to include a
breakdown showing how long people have been held. ie. I would like
to be able to see how many people have been detained for more than
six months, or for more than a year etc.

While I am not seeking personal information about individuals I
would like a breakdown of the general reasons behind the delays
which have resulted in some individuals being held for long
periods.

Speaking in the House of Commons on the 18th of May 2009 Minister
Phil Woolas stated: "The trend of our removals is significantly
up." Could you please also include the statistics on which this
statement was based.

Many thanks,

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Richard Taylor

Cambridge

http://www.rtaylor.co.uk

Dear Richard Taylor

Thank you for your recent e-mail concerning the above matter. Your request
is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
and we will respond shortly.

Kind Regards

UKBA

FOI Team

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Dear Richard Taylor,

Thank you for your below email. This falls to be dealt with under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The information that you have asked for, statistics on length of
detention and numbers of removals, is already accessible to you as it is
already in the public domain. It can be accessed on the Research and
Development Statistical website (RDS). The statistics are contained
within the Immigration and Asylum Statistics and are published
quarterly.

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act absolves UKBA as part of
the Home Office from any duty that it would otherwise have to supply you
with this information on the grounds that it is already in the public
domain. However, should you have any difficulties in accessing this
information through the means listed above please do not hesitate to
contact me again quoting the reference number 12063.

If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may request an
independent internal review of our handling of your request. Internal
review requests should be submitted within two months of the UK Border
Agency sending a substantive reply to your original request and should
be addressed to:

UK Border Agency
Central Freedom of Information Team
11th Floor
Lunar House, Short Corridor
40 Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR9 2BY

During the independent review the department's handling of your
information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in
providing you with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after
this internal review, you will have a right of complaint to the
Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of
Information Act.

Yours sincerely

Paul Feakins,
Freedom of Information Team

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Dear Freedom Of Information Team ( IND ),

Your Ref: 12063

Many thanks for your reply, however I am seeking more detailed
information than is available in the published statistics.

The published statistics lump all those who have been held for over
one year together. They can't, for example, reassure me no one has
been held for more than three years, or alert me to the fact there
are apparently individuals who have been held for over eighteen
months, or over two years. Do you hold such more detailed
information?

You have not addressed my query regarding the reasons for delays at
all. I am seeking statistics which will enable me to see, for
example, how many people are being held because the UK doesn't
consider their country of origin safe to deport them to. I would
like to see a breakdown of how long those in this situation have
been held for.

I am interested in knowing how many individuals the UK believes has
been "disowned" by their own countries and therefore cannot be
deported to the countries we think they are from? I would also like
to see a breakdown of how long those in this situation have been
held for.

I am asking for statistics which would reveal what other general
reasons there are which are resulting in individuals being detained
for long periods of time while awaiting deportation or awaiting
decisions on their immigration status?

None of this, in my view critical, information appears to me to be
in the published statistics. If you can confirm the Home Office
does not hold any statistics with greater fidelity than the
published quarterly reports to which you have referred me, that
would in itsself be an informative response to my request.

As I made clear in my initial request I am not seeking personal
information about individuals.

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Richard Taylor

Cambridge

http://www.rtaylor.co.uk

Dear Richard Taylor,

Thank you for your below email. We will respond shortly to the matters
you have raised.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Feakins,
Freedom of Information Team

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Dear Freedom Of Information Team ( IND ),

Your Ref: 12063

I would like to make an additional comment relating to my freedom
of information request for: "Statistics on those Detained Awaiting
Immigration Decisions or Deportation"; full details of which can be
viewed online at:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/12...

I would like to point out that the published information you have
referred me to in your initial response does not cover immigration
detainees held in prisons or in police cells. The wording of my
request did not limit my enquiry to those held in immigration
detention/reception/removal centres.

Many thanks,

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Richard Taylor

Cambridge

http://www.rtaylor.co.uk

Dear Mr Taylor,

Please find attached our response to your request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

Regards

David Goggin

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