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Written Question
Migrants: Detainees
Thursday 15th December 2022

Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's independent report entitled Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, published 14 January 2016, what recent progress she has made on implementing recommendation 22 of that review.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Stephen Shaw’s reports (of 2016 and 2018) led to a comprehensive and systematic programme of work to improve and reform immigration detention. It informed both our strategic and tactical approach to reform and the treatment of people who are detained. This work has strengthened our decision-making and safeguards for the vulnerable, ensuring those who are detained are treated with dignity and respect in an estate that is fit for purpose.

Progress has been made on all accepted recommendations and I will write to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon with more detail. A copy of this letter has been placed in the House library for all.


Written Question
Migrants: Detainees
Thursday 15th December 2022

Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's independent report entitled Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, published 14 January 2016, what recent progress she has made on implementing recommendation 24 of that review.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Stephen Shaw’s reports (of 2016 and 2018) led to a comprehensive and systematic programme of work to improve and reform immigration detention. It informed both our strategic and tactical approach to reform and the treatment of people who are detained. This work has strengthened our decision-making and safeguards for the vulnerable, ensuring those who are detained are treated with dignity and respect in an estate that is fit for purpose.

Progress has been made on all accepted recommendations and I will write to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon with more detail. A copy of this letter has been placed in the House library for all.


Written Question
Migrants: Detainees
Thursday 15th December 2022

Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's independent report entitled Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, published 14 January 2016, what recent progress she has made on implementing recommendation 27 of that review.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Stephen Shaw’s reports (of 2016 and 2018) led to a comprehensive and systematic programme of work to improve and reform immigration detention. It informed both our strategic and tactical approach to reform and the treatment of people who are detained. This work has strengthened our decision-making and safeguards for the vulnerable, ensuring those who are detained are treated with dignity and respect in an estate that is fit for purpose.

Progress has been made on all accepted recommendations and I will write to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon with more detail. A copy of this letter has been placed in the House library for all.


Written Question
Migrants: Detainees
Thursday 15th December 2022

Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's independent report entitled Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, published 14 January 2016, what recent progress she has made on implementing recommendation 28 of that review.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Stephen Shaw’s reports (of 2016 and 2018) led to a comprehensive and systematic programme of work to improve and reform immigration detention. It informed both our strategic and tactical approach to reform and the treatment of people who are detained. This work has strengthened our decision-making and safeguards for the vulnerable, ensuring those who are detained are treated with dignity and respect in an estate that is fit for purpose.

Progress has been made on all accepted recommendations and I will write to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon with more detail. A copy of this letter has been placed in the House library for all.


Written Question
Migrants: Detainees
Thursday 15th December 2022

Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's independent report entitled Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, published 14 January 2016, what recent progress she has made on implementing recommendation 29 of that review.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Stephen Shaw’s reports (of 2016 and 2018) led to a comprehensive and systematic programme of work to improve and reform immigration detention. It informed both our strategic and tactical approach to reform and the treatment of people who are detained. This work has strengthened our decision-making and safeguards for the vulnerable, ensuring those who are detained are treated with dignity and respect in an estate that is fit for purpose.

Progress has been made on all accepted recommendations and I will write to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon with more detail. A copy of this letter has been placed in the House library for all.


Written Question
Migrants: Detainees
Thursday 15th December 2022

Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's independent report entitled Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, published 14 January 2016, what recent progress she has made on implementing recommendation 30 of that review.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Stephen Shaw’s reports (of 2016 and 2018) led to a comprehensive and systematic programme of work to improve and reform immigration detention. It informed both our strategic and tactical approach to reform and the treatment of people who are detained. This work has strengthened our decision-making and safeguards for the vulnerable, ensuring those who are detained are treated with dignity and respect in an estate that is fit for purpose.

Progress has been made on all accepted recommendations and I will write to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon with more detail. A copy of this letter has been placed in the House library for all.


Written Question
Migrants: Detainees
Thursday 15th December 2022

Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's independent report entitled Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, published 14 January 2016, what recent progress she has made on implementing recommendation 26 of that review.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Stephen Shaw’s reports (of 2016 and 2018) led to a comprehensive and systematic programme of work to improve and reform immigration detention. It informed both our strategic and tactical approach to reform and the treatment of people who are detained. This work has strengthened our decision-making and safeguards for the vulnerable, ensuring those who are detained are treated with dignity and respect in an estate that is fit for purpose.

Progress has been made on all accepted recommendations and I will write to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon with more detail. A copy of this letter has been placed in the House library for all.


Written Question
Migrants: Detainees
Thursday 15th December 2022

Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's independent report entitled Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons published 14 January 2016, what recent progress she has made in implementing recommendation 20 on investigating the development of alternatives to detention.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Stephen Shaw’s reports (of 2016 and 2018) led to a comprehensive and systematic programme of work to improve and reform immigration detention. It informed both our strategic and tactical approach to reform and the treatment of people who are detained. This work has strengthened our decision-making and safeguards for the vulnerable, ensuring those who are detained are treated with dignity and respect in an estate that is fit for purpose.

Progress has been made on all accepted recommendations and I will write to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon with more detail. A copy of this letter has been placed in the House library for all.


Written Question
Migrants: Detainees
Thursday 15th December 2022

Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's independent report entitled Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, published 14 January 2016, what recent progress she has made on implementing recommendation 21 of that review.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Stephen Shaw’s reports (of 2016 and 2018) led to a comprehensive and systematic programme of work to improve and reform immigration detention. It informed both our strategic and tactical approach to reform and the treatment of people who are detained. This work has strengthened our decision-making and safeguards for the vulnerable, ensuring those who are detained are treated with dignity and respect in an estate that is fit for purpose.

Progress has been made on all accepted recommendations and I will write to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon with more detail. A copy of this letter has been placed in the House library for all.


Written Question
Detention Centres: Manston
Friday 9th December 2022

Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to publish minutes of all meetings with Public Health officials on the outbreak of Diphtheria linked to Manston migrant centre.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office regularly meets with UKHSA, including regular discussions on Diphtheria and other communicable diseases. These meetings have been chaired and organised by UKHSA and any decision on releasing minutes would be for them.