Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the additional resources required to accelerate the processing of applications to ensure that immigration detention times do not exceed 28 days.

The Government has no plans to introduce a fixed time limit on immigration detention. The Home Office is continually reviewing internal processes to ensure that the time any individual spends in immigration detention is kept to a minimum. Each person’s case is considered on the specific individual circumstances surrounding their immigration and/or offending history.