Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to (a) ensure that Osime Brown is not deported from the UK and (b) is not detained pending a final decision on deportation; and what assessment she has made of the support he requires for his diagnosed health conditions pending this decision.

We only ever return those who we and, where applicable, the courts are satisfied do not need our protection and have no legal basis to remain in the UK.

Mr Brown was not detained but released on Immigration Bail at the end of his custodial sentence.

It would be inappropriate to comment further while legal proceedings are ongoing.