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<p>(a) The Home Office records the number of individuals that have received a positive
Conclusive Grounds decision and this information is published quarterly by the National
Crime Agency, found at <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics.%20"
target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics.
</a></p><p>As NRM referrals, Reasonable Grounds and Conclusive Grounds decisions are
considered separately from immigration enforcement action, there is no central record
of those who have received a positive Conclusive Grounds decision and are detained
under immigration powers. The Home Office therefore does not collate or publish the
data requested</p><p>(b) The Home Office record the number of all individuals referred
to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and this information is published Quarterly
by the National Crime Agency, found at <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics.%20"
target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics.
</a></p><p>This information does not distinguish between those detained under immigration
powers and those living in the community. The reason for this is two-fold, firstly
because the NRM referral is not an immigration route by which individuals should regularise
their stay in the United Kingdom and, secondly, because a person’s status in immigration
detention is not permanent and can change.</p><p>The use of immigration detention
in all cases is subject to regular reviews and consequently a change in circumstance
may result in a different consideration. It is quite possible that an immigration
detainee is referred to the National Referral Mechanism during a detention period
and is released into the community at any point during that process.</p>
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