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Written Question
Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
Wednesday 24th May 2023

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the future management of Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre when the current contract ends.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Derwentside IRC is in the latter stages of the formal procurement process.

Heathrow and Derwentside Immigration Removal Centres Procurement - Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk);

Heathrow and Derwentside IRCs Procurement - Contracts Finder.


Written Question
Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre: Contracts
Thursday 3rd November 2022

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking on the future management of Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre ahead of the contract for that centre, currently with Mitie, ending in June 2023; and if she will make statement.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The current contract for the provisions of operational, management and maintenance services at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre is being managed to ensure the commercial partner’s compliance and adherence to their contractual obligations.

On 21st July 2021 the Home Office launched a public-sector procurement for the ongoing provision of these services beyond the expiry of the existing contract. The new contract is due to be awarded in Spring 2023.


Written Question
Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre: Contracts
Thursday 3rd November 2022

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has taken recent steps to issue new tenders for the management of Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office is currently undertaking a public-sector procurement for the award of a contract for the ongoing provision of operational, management and maintenance services at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre. This procurement was launched on 21st July 2021. The new contract is due to be awarded in Spring 2023.


Written Question
Independent Office for Police Conduct: Complaints
Monday 29th November 2021

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to lodge a complaint against the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is required by law to have a complaints system in place to deal with complaints against its staff or service. Details are available on the IOPC’S website: Our service - complaints, compliments and how to challenge our decisions | Independent Office for Police Conduct


Written Question
Hassockfield Immigration Removal Centre
Wednesday 23rd June 2021

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consultation her Department has undertaken with the local community on plans to open a new immigration detention centre for women in County Durham.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office has acquired the former Hassockfield Secure Training Centre in County Durham and will open it as an immigration removal centre for women by the autumn.

Discussions with Durham County Council have taken place and will continue throughout the development of plans for the site. Engagements with local councillors, other local stakeholders and interested non-governmental organisations will take place over the coming weeks.


Written Question
Migrants: Detainees
Monday 21st June 2021

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to reduce the use of immigration detention for women who have survived torture, rape or trafficking.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The government remains committed to using detention only where necessary. Indeed, the vast majority (95%) of people liable to be removed from the UK are granted immigration bail and there continues to be a general downward trend in the use of detention since 2015.

The Home Office will always seek to facilitate voluntary return as an alternative to detention and enforced removal. Where the use of detention is considered necessary, we recognise that some people may be particularly vulnerable to harm. This is the basis of the Adults at Risk in Immigration Detention (AAR) policy, which strengthens the presumption against detention for vulnerable adults. The AAR policy enables officials to identify vulnerable individuals and consequently make balanced decisions about the appropriateness of their detention. Under the policy, women who have survived torture, rape or trafficking will be detained only when the evidence of vulnerability in their particular case is outweighed by the immigration considerations, including immigration compliance, criminality factors and expected date of removal.

Additional safeguards are also in place for those in detention displaying such vulnerabilities, including regular reviews of detention and reporting mechanisms to ensure that particularly vulnerable individuals are brought to the attention of those with direct responsibility for authorising, maintaining and reviewing detention. The recently amended decision-making process for potential victims of modern slavery also includes a Modern Slavery Needs Assessment to identify victims’ recovery needs and establish whether they can be met in detention.

All Home Office staff working in the detention system are also given training and support to identify and act upon indicators of vulnerability at the earliest opportunity.


Written Question
Beer: Sales
Tuesday 21st April 2020

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to amend licensing laws to allow breweries to sell and deliver beer direct to the consumer during the covid-19 outbreak.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

We are considering the impact of COVID-19 on breweries and other licensed premises and steps to minimise this impact.


Written Question
Immigration: EEA Nationals
Monday 3rd February 2020

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of EEA national children have applied for (a) pre-settled and (b) settled status as of December 2019.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Published information on EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) applications by the applicant’s age and concluded applications by age and outcome type (including grants of settled and pre-settled status) to 30 September 2019, can be found in the Home Office’s ‘EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics’, statistics tables, tables EUSS_02 and EUSS_04 respectively, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-quarterly-statistics-september-2019.

EUSS quarterly statistics to 31 December 2019, including updated tables by age group, are planned for publication on 6 February 2020.

The published figures refer specifically to applications made to the EUSS and cannot be directly compared with Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates of the resident population of EU/EEA nationals in the UK. The published EUSS figures include non-EEA family members, Irish nationals, and eligible EEA citizens not resident in the UK, none of whom are usually included in ONS estimates of the resident EU population. Furthermore, the population estimates do not take account of people’s migration intentions and will include people who have come to the UK for a range of purposes, including some who have no intention to settle in the UK.


Written Question
Visas
Monday 4th November 2019

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people submitted visa applications using the Super Priority visa service in the last complete financial year for which information is available; and how many of those applicants who were eligible received a visa within the 24-hour period guaranteed by that service.

Answered by Seema Kennedy

The Home Office does not publish the information requested.

Available information on visas and service standards can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data.


Written Question
Crime Prevention: Cash Dispensing
Monday 4th December 2017

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had with representatives of the banking and security industries on the development of new technology to prevent criminal attacks on ATM cash machines.

Answered by Ben Wallace

We keep all crime threats under review, and work with the police and other partners to determine whether there is more to be done to address specific threats.

We have not had any recent discussions specifically about criminal attacks on ATM cash machines, but we will look carefully at recent trends as part of our ongoing work with the police and relevant industry leads to tackle new and emerging crime threats.