§ Jeremy CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many detainees were held in Yarl's Wood Detention Centre in each of the last 12 months; what the average time of detention was; and how many were subsequently removed from Britain. [48623]
§ Angela Eagle[holding answer 10 April 2002]: Yarl's Wood Removal Centre opened in November 2001. Internal management information, which has not been quality-assured, records that there were 112 detainees at Yarl's Wood at the end of November 2001; 252 detainees at the end of December 2001 and 308 detainees at the end of January 2002. There were 385 detainees at Yarl's Wood on 14 February 2002.
Information about the average time of detention and subsequent removals is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost by an examination of individual case files.