Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre: Children

(asked on 5th February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether children will be detained at Derwentside immigration removal centre.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 8th February 2024

Derwentside immigration removal centre, currently a female only centre, will be converted into a facility for men in due course. There is no intention for children to be detained at Derwentside.

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