Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of indefinite detention in an immigration detention removal centre on the health and wellbeing of such detainees.

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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