Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help ensure that people do not remain at the Manston immigration centre for more than 24 hours.

We are taking every step to ensure that any period of detention is as brief as possible, arrivals are processed quickly and, where appropriate, given initial asylum accommodation. We have been sourcing more bed spaces with local authorities and in contingency accommodation such as hotels. Since the start of October, over 13 new hotels providing over 1,850 additional hotel bedspaces have been brought into use.