United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 165400
Detainees: Children
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14 March 2023
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22 March 2023 · Answer
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22 March 2023
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Illegal Migration Bill would permit the indefinite detention of children.
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14 March 2023
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Illegal Migration Bill would permit the indefinite detention of children.
Source: Commons
22 March 2023
Answer
We do not detain people indefinitely and the powers in the Bill do not provide for this.The Bill will create new detention powers which will allow us to detain a person pending a decision as to whether the new duty to remove applies, and thereafter to det...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-03-14/165400
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1603944
- uk · wq-1603944 · source updated 22 March 2023