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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2022-02-09more like thismore than 2022-02-09
answering body
Home Office more like this
answering dept id 1 more like this
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Prisoners: Foreign Nationals remove filter
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inmates across the prison estate have been detained at the end of their sentence awaiting a Home Office decision on an authority to detain notification (IS91) in each year since 2010. more like this
tabling member constituency Lewisham West and Penge more like this
tabling member printed
Ellie Reeves more like this
uin 121891 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2022-02-21more like thismore than 2022-02-21
answer text <p>The Government is committed to a fair and humane immigration policy that welcomes those here legally, but tackles abuse and protects the public.</p><p>We make every effort to ensure that a foreign national offender’s (FNO) removal by deportation coincides, as far as possible, with their release from prison on completion of sentence. Detention plays a crucial role in enabling the removal of FNOs and those who are here illegally.</p><p> </p><p>Published Home Office policy, <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1046288/Detention_General_instructions.pdf" target="_blank">Detention General instructions (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>, is clear that immigration detention must be used sparingly and for the shortest period necessary. Where the Home Office intends to detain a time-served FNO under immigration powers at the end of their custodial sentence, detention notices are served in advance of this date, subject to certain exceptions. A timely risk assessment is also carried, out in line with <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/992285/detention-general-instructions-v1.0.pdf" target="_blank">published guidance</a>, which reviews the suitability of the FNOs transfer to the immigration removal estate.</p><p> </p><p>Foreign national offenders held in detention have the option to apply to an independent immigration judge for bail at any point. Once a person is in detention, regular reviews are undertaken to ensure that their detention remains lawful, appropriate and proportionate. We do not detain people indefinitely.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes data on people in immigration detention in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. The number of people in detention on the last day of each quarter are published in table Det_D02 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets" target="_blank">Detention detailed datasets</a>. The data include those detained under immigration powers in HM prisons from July 2017 and can be broken down by place of detention. The latest data relate to the number of people in detention at the end of September 2021.</p>
answering member constituency Corby more like this
answering member printed Tom Pursglove more like this
grouped question UIN
121892 more like this
121893 more like this
question first answered
less than 2022-02-21T15:37:51.537Zmore like thismore than 2022-02-21T15:37:51.537Z
answering member
4369
label Biography information for Tom Pursglove more like this
tabling member
4620
label Biography information for Ellie Reeves more like this