Andy Sawford – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Sawford on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Red incidents and (b) Amber incidents have occurred at each Immigration Removal Centre in each of the last four years.

Karen Bradley

Incidents in the detention estate are reported in accordance with Detention
Services Order (DSO) 12/2008. Incidents are classified according to their
seriousness as red, amber or green.

Examples of the types of red or amber incidents are given in the DSO. Red
incidents are generally those relating to serious disturbances and/or fires
within a centre. Amber incidents may be those involving threats to the centre,
external demonstrations, or co-ordinated food or fluid refusal.

This data has been collected by different business areas in the Home Office
over the data period requested and has not been collated centrally.

Management information is only available for the period 01 July 2013 – 9 March
2014 in the following table and is in line with the data period for published
statistics.

This data is management information collected and collated from Immigration
Removal Centre suppliers. This information does not form part of published
statistics and is not subject to the detailed checks that apply for National
Statistics publications. It is provisional and subject to change.

Table showing incidents in immigration removal centres for the period 01 July 2013 – 9 March 2014 by status.