PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cedars Pre-departure Accommodation Facility: Families (13 October 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many families detained at Cedars Pre-Departure Accommodation were (a) removed from the country and (b) released into the community in each of the last three years.

Asked by:
Ms Stella Creasy (Labour)

The number of families accommodated at Cedars for each of the last three years, along with the numbers subsequently removed or released is as follows:

Calendar Year	Total stays	Families removed	Families released
2013	48	19	29
2014	18	10	8
2015	21	6	15

The definition of a family in Cedars is one adult with at least one child under the age of 18. These statistics have been taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
24 November 2016