FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3381
You asked
Please supply the following information:
- How many times have people been directed to isolate in hotels since the red list started for covid 19 related?
- How many Africans and Caribbean are there and other nationalities in hotels?
- How many Africans are deported from the United Kingdom by the UK Border or any other agency due to Covid 19?
- Does the government make any profit from the payment or just standard business rates applicable?
- Finally, what is the official census population of Africans in the UK by country?
We said
Thank you for your request.
Unfortunately, we do not hold information for questions 1 to 4.
The Home Office maybe better placed to answer these enquiries.
They can be contacted by email at foirequests@homeoffice.gov.uk.
For question 5, please see the attached extract from QS213EW - Country of Birth which includes numbers for all African countries.
Please note the ONS Census survey covers England and Wales only so information for the whole of the UK is not held by the ONS. National Records Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. Should you wish to obtain this data from NRS and NISRA, they can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.
2011 Census data is the latest available Census data for England and Wales, results from Census 2021 will start to be released in late spring 2022 in a phased approach starting with population counts at the national level for England and Wales. Please see our Release plans for updates. This will also include the ability to build your own tables from Census data, this is scheduled for release later in 2022.