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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Healthcare: Yarl’s Wood

"I congratulate the hon. Member for Edmonton (Kate Osamor) on securing this important debate. As a longer standing Member of the House, I pay tribute to all hon. Members who have tried so hard to shine a light on the difficulties. I want to mention in particular Sarah Teather, the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Healthcare: Yarl’s Wood

"My hon. Friend makes a very important point. I just do not think that the bulk of people in our society have any idea that the UK is the only country in Europe with no time limit on immigration detention and that one can be detained for an indeterminate period …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Healthcare: Yarl’s Wood

"I could not agree more and that is why we are laying it on with a trowel today.

A further example from Women for Women Refugees distressed me greatly when I heard about it, just as the hon. Member for Edmonton was distressed by describing what women in detention have …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Healthcare: Yarl’s Wood

"I want to highlight one important point: staff from Yarl’s Wood were actually prosecuted for offences against detainees. It is important to place that on the record...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Healthcare: Yarl’s Wood

"Good try—Meriden. [Laughter.]..."
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Written Question
Detention Centres
Thursday 22nd October 2015

Asked by: Caroline Spelman (Conservative - Meriden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the findings of the follow-up audit of reports made under Rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001.

Answered by James Brokenshire

Stephen Shaw CBE, the former Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales, has completed the review into the welfare of vulnerable immigration detainees which the Home Secretary asked him to conduct, and has recently submitted his report to Ministers at the Home Office and Department of Health. His findings are being carefully considered. The report will be published by laying it before Parliament, alongside the Government’s response to the recommendations. The Government intends to publish the Rule 35 audit alongside publication of Stephen Shaw’s report.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Sep 2015
Immigration Detention

"Further to that point, the percentage of women returning to the community is even higher among pregnant women. In 2014, the independent inspection report recorded 99 pregnant women, of whom only nine were eventually deported. The rest returned to the community to pursue their claims, which shows that, aside from …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jun 2015
Devolution and Growth across Britain

"Does the hon. Gentleman accept that west midlands manufacturers felt completely neglected for 13 years under the previous Labour Government and have enjoyed a renaissance only since the coalition Government? Is it not true that the severity of the financial crisis was much greater for the United Kingdom because our …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jun 2015
Devolution and Growth across Britain

"I welcome the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Michelle Thomson), who shares with me the pleasure of having an airport in her constituency. I hope that she will forgive hon. Members, as I do, if they use her airport. I have definitely been through her constituency on many occasions in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Mar 2015
Modern Slavery Bill

"Surely the Joint Committee’s point about the moral case for revisiting the issue has been taken up, because that is precisely what the Government have just ordered because of the complexity of the issue and the changes they have made. Surely the tight vote to which the right hon. Gentleman …..."
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