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1190567

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date	27/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detention Centres: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) detainees and (b) staff of immigration detention centres have been tested for covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	40458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The health of those in immigration removal centres is of the utmost importance but we remain committed to removing foreign national offenders or those who violate our immigration rules. Detention plays a key role in securing our borders and maintaining effective immigration control and it is only right that we protect the public from high-harm individuals, which is why the vast majority of those in detention are foreign national offenders.</p><p>Decisions to detain an individual are based on all of the information known at the time. As circumstances change, temporary release may then become the most appropriate option.</p><p>We are following all Public Health England guidance and have robust contingency plans in place. Measures such as protective isolation will be considered to minimise the risk of COVID-19 spreading to vulnerable groups in the immigration detention estate.</p><p>All immigration removal centres have dedicated health facilities run by doctors and nurses which are managed by the NHS or appropriate providers.</p><p>There are currently no cases of Coronavirus, in detainees, in immigration removal centres.</p><p>Provisional management information indicates that as of 27 April four members of IRC supplier staff have tested positive for COVID-19, one of whom has now fully recovered and returned to duty. In addition, there have been two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in detainees. A third individual was identified but after his release from detention had been agreed. Whilst in the IRC the individual was in isolation. He was released as there was no immediate prospect of removal. No other detainees have tested positive for COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 40459 40460 question first answered 05/05/2020 16:31:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

1190568

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many detainees in immigration detention centres have tested positive for covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	40459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The health of those in immigration removal centres is of the utmost importance but we remain committed to removing foreign national offenders or those who violate our immigration rules. Detention plays a key role in securing our borders and maintaining effective immigration control and it is only right that we protect the public from high-harm individuals, which is why the vast majority of those in detention are foreign national offenders.</p><p>Decisions to detain an individual are based on all of the information known at the time. As circumstances change, temporary release may then become the most appropriate option.</p><p>We are following all Public Health England guidance and have robust contingency plans in place. Measures such as protective isolation will be considered to minimise the risk of COVID-19 spreading to vulnerable groups in the immigration detention estate.</p><p>All immigration removal centres have dedicated health facilities run by doctors and nurses which are managed by the NHS or appropriate providers.</p><p>There are currently no cases of Coronavirus, in detainees, in immigration removal centres.</p><p>Provisional management information indicates that as of 27 April four members of IRC supplier staff have tested positive for COVID-19, one of whom has now fully recovered and returned to duty. In addition, there have been two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in detainees. A third individual was identified but after his release from detention had been agreed. Whilst in the IRC the individual was in isolation. He was released as there was no immediate prospect of removal. No other detainees have tested positive for COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 40458 40460 question first answered 05/05/2020 16:31:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

1190569

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detention Centres: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been released from immigration detention centres since social distancing measures were introduced.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	40460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The health of those in immigration removal centres is of the utmost importance but we remain committed to removing foreign national offenders or those who violate our immigration rules. Detention plays a key role in securing our borders and maintaining effective immigration control and it is only right that we protect the public from high-harm individuals, which is why the vast majority of those in detention are foreign national offenders.</p><p>Decisions to detain an individual are based on all of the information known at the time. As circumstances change, temporary release may then become the most appropriate option.</p><p>We are following all Public Health England guidance and have robust contingency plans in place. Measures such as protective isolation will be considered to minimise the risk of COVID-19 spreading to vulnerable groups in the immigration detention estate.</p><p>All immigration removal centres have dedicated health facilities run by doctors and nurses which are managed by the NHS or appropriate providers.</p><p>There are currently no cases of Coronavirus, in detainees, in immigration removal centres.</p><p>Provisional management information indicates that as of 27 April four members of IRC supplier staff have tested positive for COVID-19, one of whom has now fully recovered and returned to duty. In addition, there have been two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in detainees. A third individual was identified but after his release from detention had been agreed. Whilst in the IRC the individual was in isolation. He was released as there was no immediate prospect of removal. No other detainees have tested positive for COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 40458 40459 question first answered 05/05/2020 16:31:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

1190570

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of child refugees approved for family reunification in the UK are detained in refugee camps in Greece following the cancellation of flights during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	40461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold detailed information on the location of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children within European Member States.</p><p>Despite Covid-19 restrictions, the UK remains fully committed to meeting our obligations under the Dublin III Regulation. The Home Office continues to process Dublin cases, including children, as far as we are able given the current circumstances and remains open to receiving transfers into the UK.</p><p>Arrangements to complete a transfer have always been and still are the responsibility of the sending State. We continue to liaise with our counterparts in Member States so that we can effect transfers as soon as it is safe and practical to do so.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 05/05/2020 16:29:27 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner