Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took to act on the findings of the report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons into conditions at Manston asylum centre published in July 2022 which indicated that the facilities at Manston for managing people with infectious diseases were poor.

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The HMIP report lists 6 Priority Concerns and 8 further Key Concerns which HMIP inspectors felt required addressing at Manston and Western Jetfoil. While one of the Priority Concerns (Priority Concern 3) referenced weaknesses in the governance of health care processes, no specific mention was made in any of the concerns about facilities at Manston for managing people with infectious diseases.

The Home Office developed a Service Improvement Plan in response to the 14 Concerns listed in the report, and worked quickly with its medical contractors to ensure that the deficiencies highlighted in Priority Concern 3 were quickly addressed.