Immigration detention inquiry
Inquiry by the Human Rights (Joint Committee), 24 July 2018 to 24 July 2018. Its page on the Parliament website.
Reports and responses
- 16th Report - Immigration detention (7 February 2019)
- 2nd Special Report - Immigration detention: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixteenth Report of Session 2017–19: Second Special Report of Session 2019–20 (25 October 2019)
Evidence sessions
- 31 October 2018: Bella Sankey, Director, Detention Action, Mary Bosworth, Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford, Celia Clarke, Director, Bail for Immigration Detainees, and Leila Zadeh, Director, UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group; Hindpal Singh Bhui, Inspection Team Leader, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Jane Leech, Immigration Detention Representative, and Dame Anne Owers, National Chair, Independent Monitoring Boards (at 4.15pm).
- 14 November 2018: Rt Hon the Lord David Blunkett.
- 21 November 2018: Amanda Weston QC, Barrister, Stephanie Harrison QC, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers, Toufique Hossain, Solicitor, Duncan Lewis and Co, and Laura Dubinsky, Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers.
- 28 November 2018: Jenny, former immigration detainee; Arrey and Michael, former immigration detainees
- 5 December 2018: Rt Hon Caroline Nokes MP, Minister of State for Immigration, and Tyson Hepple, Director General, Immigration Enforcement, Home Office.