Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to end the adults at risk in immigration detention policy.

The new adults at risk policy recognises the dynamic nature of vulnerability and introduces a new focus on decision making with regard to immigration detention. It strengthens the existing presumption against the detention of those who are particularly vulnerable to harm in detention. It is part of the Government’s response to Stephen Shaw’s report on the welfare of vulnerable people in immigration detention. The Government intends to ask Mr Shaw to carry out a short review in 2017 to assess progress against the key recommendations of his report.