Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had on introducing a clear limit on the length of time people can be held in immigration removal centres; and if she will make a statement.

The Government has no plans to introduce a fixed time limit on immigration detention as this would only encourage detainees to refuse to cooperate with immigration and asylum processes until they reached the point at which they had to be released from detention and thus avoid their enforced removal from the UK. Published Home Office policy is clear, however, that detention is only used for the shortest period necessary, during which time any health and welfare needs detained persons may have are met through the provision of appropriate services

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