UK: IMMIGRATION DETENTION: House of Commons, Written Answer

20 March 2015

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See the full text: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to review the use of detention for immigration purposes? (link) Answer: "There are no plans to review the use of detention overall but on 9 February the Home Secretary announced that Stephen Shaw, the former Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, is to lead an independent review of the policies and procedures relating to the welfare of immigration detainees."

Also: Parliamentarians call for "very radical shift in thinking" on immigration detention (Statewatch)

And: Immigration detention: resistance and rebellion With protests and hunger strikes now taking place inside eight of the UK's Detention Centres, is this the beginning of the end for detention? (Red Pepper, link)

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