Pete Wishart MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024Home OfficeTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to repeal Part II of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024.
Answer: The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024 amended Section 80AA of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (as inserted by section 59 of the Illegal Migration Act 2023).The provisions in t...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMigrants: DetaineesHome OfficeTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations of the 14th Report of Session 2017-19 of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Immigration detention,
Answer: No recent review of this report has taken place. However, the Government is committed to tackling irregular migration and strengthening border security. We are maximising efforts to establish a system that is better controlled and managed by increasing en...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMigrants: DetaineesHome OfficeTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of immigration detention (a) in total, (b) per person detained and (c) by detention centre in the 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: The total amount spent on immigration detention in the 2024/25 financial year will be published in the Home Office annual report and accounts in 2025.The Home Office does not publish the costs associated with each Immigration Removal centre as this is com...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDetention Centres: CostsHome OfficeTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13184More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of increasing the immigration detention estate by 290 places.
Answer: The Home Office does not comment on service provider procurement exercises, which are commercially sensitive. However, contracts are published upon the Contracts Finder website, once awarded. The Home Office is committed to ensuring value for money on all...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordImmigration: GeorgiaHome OfficeTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13183More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to withdraw Georgia from the list of safe states as defined in immigration legislation.
Answer: Section 80AA of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (as amended and inserted by section 59 of the Illegal Migration Act 2023) provides for a list of generally safe states for whom asylum and human rights claims would be declared inadmissible;...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
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