Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the research by the National Centre for Social Research entitled Alternatives to detention: evaluation of second pilot, published on 23 August 2023, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for its policies of that research.

There are six recommendations for the Home Office in the second pilot’s evaluation report, which have either been accepted in full or partially. Learning and insights from the pilot are set out in the published Home Office response which is included within the evaluation report.