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The Home Office has admitted that in cases where asylum seekers sheltered in Britain die in these facilities, or end their lives, they do not make it public and do not provide information.
According to them, this is done in order not to burden the mental health and psychology of family members of asylum seekers who arrive illegally in Britain.
"The Guardian" writes that this discovery comes after 176 deaths in asylum facilities since 2020 and a doubling of the number of people who kill themselves, including the case of the 27-year-old from Durrës, Leonard Farruku.
In 2022, 46 people died while being held in Home Office asylum facilities, more than double the number who died in 2021.
NGOs have recently warned that asylum seekers are at particularly high risk of suicide, in part due to Home Office policies such as admission to mass accommodation sites such as Wethersfield in Essex and the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset.
The Home Office has confirmed that it is making less information available about these deaths than it previously did.
Meanwhile, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has come out against this practice followed by the Home Office, coming out with the decision that information must be provided in every case.
The Home Office said there were five deaths between January and June last year, with one confirmed as a suicide.
But it declined to provide other details such as age, gender and nationality, citing a section of the Freedom of Information Act that gives the right to withhold information if it is likely to "endanger the physical or mental health of any family member" or their safety. .
In its ruling, the ICO said the Home Office had explained to it that when someone died in asylum accommodation, it was not standard practice to contact their next of kin.
The family of Leonard Farruk, who killed himself while sheltering on the Bibby Stockholm barge, told the Guardian in December 2023 that the Home Office had not informed them of his death.
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