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1665050

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date	16/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to convert Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre into a facility for men only.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	202743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/10/2023 11:08:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1665061

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Durham County Council on the proposed changes to Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	202754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/10/2023 11:09:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1628235

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the future management of Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre when the current contract ends.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Sir Alan Campbell
uin	185206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>Derwentside IRC is in the latter stages of the formal procurement process.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/017284-2021" target="_blank">Heathrow and Derwentside Immigration Removal Centres Procurement - Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk)</a>;</p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/6cb62591-2356-419e-aaf2-c1708c2acc4d?origin=SearchResults&amp;p=1" target="_blank">Heathrow and Derwentside IRCs Procurement - Contracts Finder</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/05/2023 09:20:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

1548354

registered interest
date	05/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) escort services to and from Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre and (b) legal firms’ travel expenses relating to travel to that centre from the 1st January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	102806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) operates free legal advice surgeries in immigration removal centres (IRCs) in England under the Detained Duty Advice Scheme (DDAS). Individuals who are detained are entitled to receive up to 30 minutes of advice regardless of financial eligibility or the merits of their case. There is no restriction on the number of surgeries an individual may attend. If an individual who is detained requires substantive advice on a matter which is in scope of legal aid, full legal advice can be provided if the statutory legal aid means and merits criteria are met.</p><p>Individuals detained in IRCs can also access privately commissioned legal advice, including legally aided advice provided through means other than the DDAS.</p><p>The Home Office contract for the provision of escorting services for detained individuals is provided by Mitie Care and Custody Ltd from 1st May 2018. Details of this contract can be found upon the Contracts Finder website. <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F8e94f338-6049-48f7-8b82-9dea24af8857%3Fp%3D1&amp;data=05%7C01%7CFrances.Hardy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C8744380b6fcf4aa0f19b08dad7849bf0%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638059261789904333%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5C2%2BoXIE4GqzNvCbFUZqsapzkbutsJifFJCX9h2oJDU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/8e94f338-6049-48f7-8b82-9dea24af8857?p=1</a></p><p>The escorting service contract is split into service lines for invoicing purposes, and the costs for escorting around the UK, including to and from Derwentside, are included within the In-Country Escort service. The department does not hold the costs for movements to and from Derwentside separately. The Home Office publishes payments in excess of £25K on its website at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fhome-office-spending&amp;data=05%7C01%7CFrances.Hardy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C8744380b6fcf4aa0f19b08dad7849bf0%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638059261789904333%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ORXtxGzbD4XI432i0yMYBENUHpm6z8KTbwT0luDfUqw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/home-office-spending</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 08/12/2022 17:57:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1540852

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the women detained at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre in July and August 2022, how many women were (a) foreign national criminals released from prison, (b) asylum seekers whose claims were ongoing and (c) women who had overstayed their visa.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	82294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on people in detention on the last day of each quarter in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’, as well as data on people entering and leaving detention during each quarter. The latest data relate to the end of June 2022.</p><p>Data on people in detention are published in table Det_D02 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets#immigration-detention" target="_blank">Detention detailed tables</a>’, where the data can be broken down by current place of detention (including Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre), and sex.</p><p>Data on people in detention broken down by asylum and non-asylum related detainees are published in table Det_01 of the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1098047/detention-summary-jun-2022-tables.ods" target="_blank">Detention summary tables</a>’.</p><p>Data on those in detention relate to those in detention on the last day of the quarter and are therefore subject to daily fluctuations and can depend on how many people entered detention just before the end of the period.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/11/2022 11:59:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah