Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to provide mental health support to immigration removal centre staff.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.
In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.
The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.
Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to provide support to individuals employed in immigration removal centres who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.
In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.
The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.
Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed in immigration removal centres were signed off work as a result of mental health illnesses in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.
In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.
The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.
Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed in immigration removal centres took early retirement as a result of ill health in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.
In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.
The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.
Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed in immigration removal centres were signed off work as a result of post-traumatic stress disorder in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.
In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.
The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.
Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the review of the Prevent Strategy addresses the growing threat of far-right extremism.
Answered by Ben Wallace
Prevent aims to stop vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism and does not target a specific faith or ethnic group it deals with all forms of terrorism. Almost half of those people who receive Channel support are initially referred for concerns related to right-wing extremism. The independent review of the Prevent programme, which was announced on 22 January 2019, will therefore also deal with all forms of terrorism.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to expand mentoring services and support individuals vulnerable to recruitment by far-right organisations.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The Prevent programme is fundamentally about safeguarding and supporting vulnerable individuals to stop them from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Prevent addresses all forms of terrorism, including right wing terrorism.
Since 2012, over 1,300 people have been supported through the voluntary, confidential Channel programme. In 2017/18, almost half of those people who received Channel support were initially referred for concerns related to right-wing extremism. The majority of the individuals who choose to participate in Channel leave with no further terrorism-related concerns. The Channel programme continues to expand its cohort of right wing specialist intervention providers that provide bespoke intervention sessions with individuals that have been identified as being vulnerable to being radicalised by far-right organisations and their narratives.
Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reported instances of far-right violence have been recorded in each of the past 10 years.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office routinely collects and releases data on the number of violent offences recorded by the police in England and Wales.This data does not include information on whether the violence was motivated by far-right ideology or not.