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<p>The Government has no plans to introduce a fixed time limit on immigration detention
as this would only encourage detainees to refuse to cooperate with immigration and
asylum processes until they reached the point at which they had to be released from
detention and thus avoid their enforced removal from the UK. Published Home Office
policy is clear, however, that detention is only used for the shortest period necessary.</p><p>
</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chapters-46-to-62-detention-and-removals"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chapters-46-to-62-detention-and-removals</a></p>
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