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1134048

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date	24/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Short-term Holding Facilities: Airports
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 were detained (a) in total and (b) for more than 24 hours in short-term holding facilities at (i) Heathrow and (ii) Gatwick airport in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	268348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>Home Office management information indicates there were 19,434 detentions at the short-term holding facilities at Heathrow airport between June 2018 and May 2019. Of this number, 136 people were detained for more than 24 hours. For the same period 8,386 detentions were recorded in the short-term holding facilities at Gatwick airport, and of these 74 people were detained for more than 24 hours. This is provisional management information that has not been assured to the standard of official statistics.</p><p>Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) provide vital scrutiny of short-term holding facilities and help ensure that they provide a secure and humane detention environment. IMBs publish annual reports and the Government responds with a published action plan. The Government has responded to the 2018 annual report for the North and Midlands Independent Monitoring Board for short-term holding facilities and will be responding to the 2018 annual reports for Heathrow Airport, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Larne, and Port of Dover short-term holding facility Independent Monitoring Boards in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 268349 question first answered 02/07/2019 15:24:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1134049

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Short-term Holding Facilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made implementing the recommendations of the Independent Monitoring Boards to improve conditions in short-term holding facilities.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	268349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>Home Office management information indicates there were 19,434 detentions at the short-term holding facilities at Heathrow airport between June 2018 and May 2019. Of this number, 136 people were detained for more than 24 hours. For the same period 8,386 detentions were recorded in the short-term holding facilities at Gatwick airport, and of these 74 people were detained for more than 24 hours. This is provisional management information that has not been assured to the standard of official statistics.</p><p>Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) provide vital scrutiny of short-term holding facilities and help ensure that they provide a secure and humane detention environment. IMBs publish annual reports and the Government responds with a published action plan. The Government has responded to the 2018 annual report for the North and Midlands Independent Monitoring Board for short-term holding facilities and will be responding to the 2018 annual reports for Heathrow Airport, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Larne, and Port of Dover short-term holding facility Independent Monitoring Boards in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 268348 question first answered 02/07/2019 15:24:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1134050

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: 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 people currently in Immigration Removal Centres claim to be under 18 years old.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	268350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government ended the routine detention of children in immigration re-moval centres in 2010. Current Home Office policy maintains this position. However, although many asylum seekers who claim to be children do not have any definitive documentary evidence to support their claimed age, the Home Office does not treat an individual as an adult when there is doubt about whether they are an adult or a child. In cases where new information comes to light or concerns are raised, which indicate that a person who has been detained as an adult may be a child, we would seek to release them in to the care of local authority children’s services at the earliest safe opportunity for an age assessment and they will be treated as a child whilst the outcome is awaited.</p><p>The Home Office publishes information on the number of children in detention on the last day of each quarter. The data is available in the detention tables (dt_13_q) in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2019’, available from the Home Office website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803188/detention-mar-2019-tables.ods." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803188/detention-mar-2019-tables.ods.</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 268351 question first answered 02/07/2019 15:35:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1134051

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on detaining in Immigration Removal Centres people who claim to be under 18 years old but whose age is disputed by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	268351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government ended the routine detention of children in immigration re-moval centres in 2010. Current Home Office policy maintains this position. However, although many asylum seekers who claim to be children do not have any definitive documentary evidence to support their claimed age, the Home Office does not treat an individual as an adult when there is doubt about whether they are an adult or a child. In cases where new information comes to light or concerns are raised, which indicate that a person who has been detained as an adult may be a child, we would seek to release them in to the care of local authority children’s services at the earliest safe opportunity for an age assessment and they will be treated as a child whilst the outcome is awaited.</p><p>The Home Office publishes information on the number of children in detention on the last day of each quarter. The data is available in the detention tables (dt_13_q) in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2019’, available from the Home Office website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803188/detention-mar-2019-tables.ods." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803188/detention-mar-2019-tables.ods.</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 268350 question first answered 02/07/2019 15:35:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1134052

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reporting locations there are for asylum seekers in each local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	268352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not required to report to the Secretary of State unless they have had a negative decision or if they have previously been encountered in breach of the Immigration rules</p><p>The majority of individuals on reporting conditions are required to report to one of the 14 reporting centres in a Home Office location. Additional reporting currently takes place in police stations in some of the areas not close to a reporting centre.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 02/07/2019 16:58:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1134053

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on increasing the number of reporting locations for asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	268353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to increase the number of reporting locations. In some areas of the UK where there are no Reporting Centres, the Home Office require indivduals on reporting conditions to to report to Non-Home Office locations (Police Stations).</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 02/07/2019 17:00:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey