It is important that we do not inadvertently create perverse incentives for evil people smuggling gangs to target particularly venerable groups. Therefore, pregnant women who come to the UK illegally and fall within the duty to remove will not be exempt from detention and removal under this Bill.<\/p>
The Home Office takes the welfare of those in detention seriously. We will only detain pregnant women when it is necessary and in appropriate accommodation with appropriate healthcare provisions.<\/p>
An equality impact assessment has been completed for the Illegal Migration Bill, and is available here: Illegal Migration Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament<\/a>.<\/p> The Home Office are not aware that any women who have been pregnant whilst in immigration detention have died during their perinatal period.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason pregnant women detained under the Illegal Migration Bill will not be subject to the 72 hour detention limit introduced in 2016; and what steps she has taken to assess the potential impact of the Illegal Migration Bill on pregnant women.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1626717/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " It is important that we do not inadvertently create perverse incentives for evil people smuggling gangs to target particularly venerable groups. Therefore, pregnant women who come to the UK illegally and fall within the duty to remove will not be exempt from detention and removal under this Bill.<\/p> The Home Office takes the welfare of those in detention seriously. We will only detain pregnant women when it is necessary and in appropriate accommodation with appropriate healthcare provisions.<\/p> An equality impact assessment has been completed for the Illegal Migration Bill, and is available here: Illegal Migration Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament<\/a>.<\/p> The Home Office are not aware that any women who have been pregnant whilst in immigration detention have died during their perinatal period.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women each year who were held in migrant detention while pregnant died in the perinatal period (a) before the implementation of the 72-hour detention limit for pregnant women in 2016 and (b) after the implementation of that limit.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1626718", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1626718/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Home Office does not hold the information requested.<\/p> <\/p> Data on the total number of pregnant women detained in the immigration detention estate each quarter is published in table PWD_01 of the \u2018Immigration Enforcement data: Q4 2022\u2019. This data is only available from July 2016 and goes up to the end of September 2022. For data prior to 2010, see the archived Detention tables.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women who were held in migrant detention while pregnant miscarried or experienced a still birth each year (a) before the implementation of the 72-hour detention limit in 2016 and (b) after the implementation of that limit.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1626719", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1626719/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Home Office does not hold the information requested.<\/p> <\/p> Data on the total number of pregnant women detained in the immigration detention estate each quarter is published in table PWD_01 of the \u2018Immigration Enforcement data: Q4 2022\u2019. This data is only available from July 2016 and goes up to the end of September 2022. For data prior to 2010, see the archived Detention tables.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the ten years up to and including 2016, how many midwife appointments on average did (a) pregnant women held in migrant detention centres and (b) pregnant women in the wider UK population have in the course of their pregnancy.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department will take to ensure disabled people will be able to access the consultation on the Disability Action Plan.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council\u2019s totality report into Child Sexual Abuse; and if she will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the Government has made on its response to the Independent inquiry into child sexual abuse; and if she will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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