Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women have been held in isolation in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre in the last month as a result of the recent outbreak of tuberculosis in that centre.

Information provided by the Public Health England health protection team in the East of England, indicates that in mid-November 2016 there was one confirmed case of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed in a patient at Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre. As per guidance from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, close contacts were identified, amongst whom four women presented with signs and symptoms which could be caused by TB. They were isolated until a fuller assessment was completed. They were not diagnosed with TB.