Question follow-through · 53990
Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre: Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that women have access to high-quality (a) interpretation and (b) translation services at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2025 · 14 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
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that women have access to high-quality (a) interpretation and (b) translation services at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jun 2025
Answer published
There is detailed guidance for staff working at all Immigration Removal Centres (IRC), including Derwentside. Detention Services Order ‘Interpretation Services and use of Translation Devices’ provides instruction and guidance on the use of interpretation ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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