Parliament update: immigration and asylum
- Detention - children and families
- Foreign National Prisoners
- Fee Charging - Immigration and Asylum Appeals
- Jimmy Mubenga - will there be a full investigation?
- Asylum - legacy/Case resolution update
- Zimbabwe - Govt. plans to re-start forced removals
- Detention - women in mixed sex facilities
- Asylum initial screening - travelling to Croydon
Immigration: Detention Centres (children and families)
Written answers and statements, 27 October 2010
Andrew Smith (Oxford East, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) children and (b) families have been held in (i) immigration detention, (ii) short-term holding units and (iii) mother-and-baby units in prisons in each month of 2010 to date.
Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre: Children
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 18 October 2010
Adrian Sanders (Torbay, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the safety and well-being of children being held at Yarl’s Wood detention centre; and what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the detention of children.
Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
Justice
Written answers and statements, 26 October 2010
Keith Vaz (Leicester East, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice
(1) how many foreign prisoners were detained in each prison on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many such prisoners had completed their sentences;
(2) how many prisoners there are from each (a) other EU member state and (b) non-EU country;
(3) how many foreign prisoners are serving a sentence of longer than six months.
Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 20 October 2010
Stewart Jackson (Peterborough, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign prisoners held on the prison estate have completed their sentences but have yet to be deported to their home countries; and if she will make a statement.
Damian Green (Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office; Ashford, Conservative)
The UK Border Agency and the National Offender Management Service work closely to ensure that foreign national prisoners (FNPs) are removed from the UK at the earliest opportunity. In 2009, for an average month, approximately 550 foreign national prisoners were detained in prison beyond the end of their custodial sentence while deportation was pursued.
Fee Charging (Immigration and Asylum Appeals)
Justice
Written answers and statements, 21 October 2010
Jonathan Djanogly (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)
…I believe that it is reasonable to ask non-UK citizens appealing against some categories of immigration and asylum decisions to contribute to the costs of the administration of that appeal, where they are able to.
…I am today launching a public consultation on the mechanisms for introducing fee charges as I have outlined here. The consultation will be available from today on the Ministry of Justice’s website and will run for 12 weeks, concluding on 21 January 2011.
I welcome feedback from all interested parties.
Immigration: Jimmy Mubenga — Question
House of Lords debates, 20 October 2010, 3:31 pm
Baroness Neuberger (Liberal Democrat)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether there will be a full investigation into the death of Mr Jimmy Mubenga during deportation.
Asylum (legacy/Case resolution)
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 20 October 2010
Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton South West, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of her Department’s progress against its objective to complete outstanding decisions on legacy asylum cases by 2011.
Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 20 October 2010, c753W)
Damian Green (Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office; Ashford, Conservative)
The chief executive of the UK Border Agency, Lin Homer, updated the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) on 19 July 2010. The Case Resolution Directorate had concluded 277,000 cases up to the end of May 2010. She will provide a further progress update on the conclusion of these cases in her next correspondence to the HASC later in the autumn.
Returns to Zimbabwe
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 14 October 2010
Damian Green (Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office; Ashford, Conservative)
I am announcing today our intention to end the current suspension of enforced returns of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe. There are some Zimbabweans who continue to have a well-founded fear of persecution; we continue to grant protection to those people. As with any other nationality, every case is considered on its individual merits and against the background of the latest available country information from a wide range of reliable sources including international organisations, non-governmental organisations and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Asylum: Females
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 13 October 2010
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many female asylum seekers were detained in mixed sex facilities in the latest year for which figures are available.
Asylum (travelling to Croydon for screening)
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 13 October 2010
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the system for allocating appointments for initial screening at the UK Border Agency Asylum Screening Unit in Croydon for those travelling from the North East; and whether alternative appointment times are made available for such people.
