Immigration Enforcement
Secretariat
Sandford House
41 Homer Road
Solihull
B91 3QJ
M Esslemont
request-571054-
www.gov.uk/home-office
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Thursday 30 May 2019
Dear M Esslemont
Re: Freedom of Information request – 53449
Thank you for your e-mail of 24 April 2019, in which you ask for the total number of
trafficking victims held in immigration removal centres (IRCs) in 2018 (from January 1st -
December 31st)
Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. We are now in a position to provide a full reply to your request.
The data you have requested is set out at Annex A below. Please note the comments
concerning this data within the Annex. The data has not been assured to the standard of
Official Statistics.
If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review
of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to
xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx, quoting reference 53449. If you ask for an internal
review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.
As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request would
be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If you
were to remain dissatisfied after an internal review, you would have a right of complaint to
the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the FOIA.
Yours sincerely
Immigration Enforcement Secretariat
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Annex A
FOI Number 53449
"Please provide the total number of trafficking victims held in immigration removal centers (IRCs) in 2018 (from January 1st - December 31st)"
Our records indicate that…
Table 1 - Number of individuals who were detained between 01-Jan-18 and 31-Dec-18, and were given a positive Conclusive
Grounds (CG) decision either before entering detention or during a detention period, where detention was continued
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Notes
1 These statistics have been taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information
2 PVoT and Detention data extracted on 29-Apr-19
3 The data provided gives the number of individuals who received a positive Conclusive Grounds (CG) outcome either; at any time before
their detention start date, or during the period of detention where detention was continued for more than 30 days after the CG outcome
4 Where a positive CG outcome was given before entering detention - this may have been at any point, and therefore could be outside of the date range specified
5 The data shows individuals who were in detention at any time during the period of 01-Jan-18 and 31-Dec-18. As such, the detention start and/or end date may fall outside of the date range.
6 Where individuals have multiple detentions which meet the required criteria, only one instance of detention has been included
