Question follow-through · 15894
Migrants: Detainees
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 introduce a statutory time limit on immigration detention.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 29 Nov 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
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 introduce a statutory time limit on immigration detention.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Nov 2024
Answer published
There are currently no plans to introduce a time limit on immigration detention. This would risk significantly weakening our ability to remove those who have breached our immigration laws or who refuse to leave the UK voluntarily.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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