IMMIGRATION detainees who earn as little as £1 an hour are asking the Court of Appeal in London to intervene over the low-pay regime.

Their lawyers say that the Home Office must pay detainees more for cleaning and maintenance work they perform while held in immigration removal centres.

New figures obtained by the Morning Star show that detainees worked a total of 37,483 hours in March 2019 but were paid just £39,216. If they had received the minimum wage of £7.83 an hour then they would have earned an extra £254,275.